Quotes About Gambling

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

Entonces? Acaso Dios tenga un rostro de croupier y yo sólo sea un pobre diablo que juega a rojo cuando sale negro, y viceversa.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

The Regency was an age of hard gambling, and therefore it was more important than ever to keep the family finances afloat by marrying well.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.

I had a Velcro wallet in a casino. That sound annoyed the hell out of me. Whenever I lost money, and I opened the wallet, it was like the sound of my addiction.

Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.

Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live.

If you wagered $5,000 on each of my winning NFL picks in 2012 and $500 ($550) on each of my losing picks, you'd be ahead $70,050. Wow.

I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

She shakes the blues off then she tries her luck Makes a little bet, hopes her horse comes up Pickin' pockets for some easy money 'Cause she blew the goddamn lot on the National Lottery Alabama 3, 'Mansion On The Hill' Album: La Peste, 2000

It's like buying a lottery ticket: you might win, and until they have the drawing, you haven't lost. I

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

The US government alone cannot get its economy out of the crisis. It appears to me that the current policy makers are suffering from the gambler's syndrome. They keep spending more money hoping that they will eventually win. More debt spending is a receipt for bankruptcy. Real economic growth comes from government and private sector investments, not from massive debt spending followed by tax increases or currency devaluation.

Trump had this urge to be a really big name, so he cultivated celebrity. But his lifestyle was surprisingly unglamorous. He's quite disciplined in some ways. Doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, lives above the store. He was not a big New York socialite, never was. He basically enjoyed going upstairs and watching the tube. What he was interested in was celebrity and his businesses—construction, real estate, gambling, wrestling, boxing." •