Quotes About Gambling

She was beginning to understand. Winners didn't shoot off their mouths. They were afraid of getting murdered in the parking lot. After the fourth race, a $22.80 winner, he turned again and told Katherine, "I had that one, ten across." She turned away. "His face is yellow, Hank. Did you see his eyes? He's sick." "He's sick on the dream. We're all sick on the dream, that's why we're out here.

I am humanely destroyed, I am the horseplayer who became the racetrack.

After the fourth race, a $22.80 winner, he turned again and told Katherine, "I had that one, ten across." She turned away. "His face is yellow, Hank. Did you see his eyes? He's sick." "He's sick on the dream. We're all sick on the dream, that's why we're out here." "Hank, let's go.

Dostoyevsky crucified on the roulette wheel with Christ on his mind

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

They're nuts. Completely insane! I don't get this gambling thing. Didn't these people study statistics at university? Evidently not

They're nuts. Completely insane! I don't get this gambling thing. Didn't these people study statistics at university?

I won $2 playing the lotto today. And I might win $2 again tomorrow. But if I buy thousands of $1 lottery tickets, each with an expected payout of $.56, then it becomes a near mathematical certainty that I will lose money.

The law of large numbers explains why casinos always make money in the long run.

Han] glared into his mug. Besides, he didn't add, asking Princess Leia for repacement reward credits would mean he'd have to tell her how he'd lost the first batch. Not in gambling or bad investments or even drinking, but to a kriffing pirate. And then she would give him one of those looks. There were, he decided, worse things than being on Jabba's hit list

New Orleans will be the new Las Vegas or, more like it, Atlantic City: a big gaudy façade for all the high-rollers, controlled by mobsters and businessmen who live far, far away and destroy everything they touch

The world is a very strange place,and the dice are always rolling

alea iacta est: 'the die is cast'.

On account of disastrous losses in Wall Street that morning, I had determined to kill myself. I'm not of much account, any way, and I was desperate. I knew Uncle Robert would give me no money to repay my stock losses, for he always thought speculation no better than any other sort of gambling—and it isn't.

Ace Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

There are three roads to ruin women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

I don't gamble. I invest with a risk.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

Maybe it's all they were after, but gamblers gamble. It worked, as far as they're concerned.

in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

Before you decide to play with live straddles in your home game, remember that this twist essentially doubles the size of the game. It's often used by players who have been losing and are trying to get lucky and win a big pot.

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.