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Quotes About Gambling

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win
~ Charles Spurgeon
The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.
~ Michael Ondaatje
It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi?ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
~ T. J. Miller
I was a street guy. I mean, I grew up in an Italian neighborhood with mob guys around. Where I grew up, you gambled, you shot dice, you played cards, you went to the track. So the mob to me was not strange, it was not like I was an F.B.I. agent from Salt Lake City.
~ Joseph D. Pistone
Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.
~ Eric Schneiderman
Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy.
~ Kenny Guinn
I don't know what to do about Justin continuing to fleece my family. How much did you lose? Alan shrugged and sipped. About one seventy-five. Catching Shelby's eye, he grinned. I only play with Justine for diplomatic reasons. As she continued to stare he leaned back against the buffet. And, dammit, one day I'm going to beat him.
~ Nora Roberts
Gamblers are either rich people who don't give a shit if they lose, or suckers who actually think they can win.
~ Nora Roberts
They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's one thing for my parents to behave all secular humanist and gamble with their own eternal souls; however it's altogether not all right that they also gambled with mine: They placed their bets with such self-rightous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Isaac Bell slowly laid his cards on the table one by one. "A straight flush
~ Clive Cussler
The Checkered Game of Life was a real game, invented by a young draftsman named Milton Bradley in 1860. Checkered referred both to the board, which was patterned like a checkerboard, and also to the checkered way life sometimes goes. No dice were included because of their connection to gambling and because
~ Victoria Thompson
Magellan found it impossible to enforce this directive), as were card and dice players.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The gambler is a moral suicide.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow
~ Charles Dickens
The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win
~ Charles H. Spurgeon
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety and nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way.
~ Mark Twain (at Bayreuth)
That's real money you're risking now. It's called gambling.
~ Guy Bellamy
He's millions in debt. He hasn't stopped drinking and gambling since his father was assassinated." Brilliantly assassinated, Plagueis thought.
~ James Luceno
Because all that money wouldn't be in the pot in the first place if you weren't up against a pretty strong hand, you loose, dumb, tight-weak motherfucker!
~ James McManus
I remember playing in Union City, and we had crap games after we finished playing at night. We would go next door to the cab stand where they were playing gin rummy and betting $1,000 a hand.
~ Frank Vincent