Quotes About Gambling

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

I am unable to name a single one who started his success from such a source (gambling at the casino).

Fortuna se ha convertido en «fortuna», en el sentido del contador y del banquero.

One is for ever hearing of persons who have lost their fortunes at gaming, but one never hears of anyone who has won a fortune. It seems very odd to me. Where do all the lost fortunes go to?

I am sure I do not know why a man should not be a gamester, if his talents make it an eligible profession for him!

The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality.

In gambling we say you are 'on tilt' when your mood gets in the way of making your best decisions. And nobody plays well on tilt.

They always lost but he didn't blame me because to a gambler, a bad tip is better than no tip at all.

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

At night when I can't sleep, I play blackjack online until I get tired or I lose my money.

Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.

Gambling has brought our family together. We had to move to a smaller house.

Max always mumbles; not in a shy way, but rather as if he's telling you what it will cost to take out your worst enemy, or how much you'd have to pay to rig a horse race.

Can't buy in for the last hand if you don't get there in time to take a chair.

The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games—" "—is Locke Lamora—" "—because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons—" "—and fifty thousand cheering spectators.

peeked at his cards and said, 'Ahhhh-ha,' with a tone of interested pleasure. They were an astonishing constellation of crap; his worst hand yet.

Locke ran his fingers under his coat lapel, then peeked at his cards and said "Ahhhh-ha," with a tone of interested pleasure. They were an astonishing constellation of crap; his worst hand yet.

California State University Professor Mike Orkin points out that if a person drives ten miles to buy a ticket, he or she is about sixteen times more likely to get killed in a car crash on the way than to win the jackpot. Wait a minute, you say; that may be for one ticket, but they're buying a lot of tickets—surely, that improves the odds. It does, but Orkin notes that a person who buys fifty tickets a week will win the jackpot on average about once every 30,000 years.

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

I talk to God and make deals with him every time I gamble. Otherwise, I leave him alone.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Smiley always came out a winner on that pup, till he bet on a dog once that didn't have no rear legs, because they'd been sawed off in a circular saw accident. When the fight had gone along far

This need for excitement of the will manifests itself very specially in the discovery and support of card-playing, which is quite peculiarly the expression of the miserable side of humanity.