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Quotes About Wager

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.
~ Michael Caine
No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.
~ Bud Flanagan
I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
~ Paul R. Ehrlich
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
~ Ambrose Bierce
This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.
~ Norm MacDonald
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
~ Al Alvarez
In the beginning, everything was even money.
~ Mike Caro
If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.
~ Alan Bradley
Horse racing is animated roulette.
~ Roger Kahn
Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
~ Pete Rose
A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
~ Blaise Pascal
Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
~ Martin Luther
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
~ Blaise Pascal
Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.
~ Albert Camus, The Fall
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives—if you win, you win all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
~ Jan Karon
You can't tell till you bet.
~ Edwin Lefevre
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
~ Wilson Mizner
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~ Ken Follett
The strategy is to bet your entire bankroll each race, apportioning it among the horses according to your informed estimate of each horse's chance of winning.
~ William Poundstone
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.
~ Wilson Mizner
I've never been one to bet on the weather.
~ J. Paul Getty
High-stakes gamblers love heart-racing Omaha-type action; normal poker players don't!
~ Daniel Negreanu