Quotes About Gambling

But we all seek solace somewhere. Some in friendships and family and beliefs. Some in drugs, in a bottle, in food or gambling or good deeds. And some in casual sex. It masqueraded as human contact, but was closer to loathing than liking. And certainly wasn't love.

Los juegos de azar hay que considerarlos como estériles para la cultura. Ninguna riqueza aportan ni al espíritu ni a la vida. Pero otra cosa ocurre cuando la porfía exige destreza, habilidad, conocimientos, valor y fuerza.

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

We're really not going to get that much money out of a lottery for a small state like Alabama.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

Tate was probably on his way back to the nation's capitol right now, she thought miserably. He would have protected her, and her child, but she'd sent him off in a fury. Great going, Cecily, she told herself. What a headline they'll have now! Former Teenage Love Slave Killed By Vengeful Gambling Syndicate. That would give people something to read with their morning coffee!

Chico was a small-time hustler and big-time loser who liked to bet the ponies and hit women. He was more successful at the latter.

This gambling habit is the curse of a thief's life.

Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.

Indecisive? Uncertain? Worried? Let the rolling ivory tumble your burdens away. $2.50 per pair.

This reminds me of the old saying about a guy who owned four farms. He lost three of them drawing to inside straights and lost the fourth one when he made it.

Take a plunge, take a plunge . . . they're all crooks and gamblers anyway . . . take a plunge and come up with your hands full, pockets full, bankaccount full, vaults full of money. If I only dared take the risk. Fool to waste your time fuming about it.

said, her eyes suddenly darting from David's to Wally's. "That's the deal. Who is it?" "There's a man two blocks over, used to play poker with Percy, croaked last year in the shower two months after my Percy passed. I know for a fact he was on Krayoxx." Wally's eyes were wild. "What's his name?" "You said cash, right? Five hundred cash.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

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

I spent 10 years of my life gambling, they always hated that and tried to stop me. I never defended myself, you know me well, I never defend my actions because I know that time heals what reason cannot. And here we are, they finally understand why gambling is so fun. Thanks, Achilles.

The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of gambling at baccarat and had only been saved by this restaurant, which he seemed to cherish as if it were his wife or a good fountain pen.

A solid rule when you are playing other people is you do not win big and immediately walk away.

There are probably others; my source could only track these." "And you trust this source." "I trust that he appreciates having his gambling debts paid off. And that he knows if he crosses me, I'll push him in front of a fucking bus. So, yes.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.

Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports.