Quotes and Sayings About Gambling
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Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.
-- Ada Leverson -
Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
-- Al Alvarez -
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
-- Al Alvarez -
In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
-- Albert Camus -
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
-- Alex Trebek -
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or running around with other women. One is the giver and one is the taker. The giver wishes the taker would stop.
-- Alma Katsu -
I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.
-- Amarillo Slim -
Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.
-- Ambrose -
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
-- Andy Warhol -
Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible
-- Annette Crosbie -
If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.
-- Anthony Daniels -
The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.
-- Arthur Twining Hadley -
I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.
-- Artie Lange -
At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota
-- Artie Lange -
I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.
-- Artie Lange -
The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.
-- Augustus De Morgan -
You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.
-- Bert Ambrose -
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
-- Bill Nighy -
Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.
-- Bruce Sterling -
No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.
-- Bud Flanagan -
Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.
-- Calvin Ayre
