Quotes About Wager

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.

I lay 11-10 because I know the bookie needs that 5 percent that I give him. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to make a living and go down to Florida with his family.

I know what winning and losing is when you gamble.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

I sat in silence, absorbing this. They'd wagered that Mr. Ross wouldn't throw me out if I was on my own, and no thanks to them, they were right. I wasn't just their plaything, their pretty, fake wife. I was their unwitting pawn, theirs to strategically play.

It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.

I'm a betting man. I like to gamble everywhere, everything I do.

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

I drive every day. I like to gamble.

If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!

I love to gamble!

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.

My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

I'm used to gambling.

Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins.

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.

LOTTERY TICKET: a voluntary tax paid by people who are extremely bad at math.

Goodbye, Lord Rohan, she said. The door to Lina's house stood open, the footman waitig patiently. I don't expect we'll see each other again. His smile was slow, mocking, irresistibly devilish. Would you care to wager on that, my love?

knowledge is indeed highly subjective, but we can quantify it with a bet. The amount we wager shows how much we believe in something.

De Mortimer was willing to wager his hopes for salvation that self-interest was the one drink no man refused, but he had never understood why most men must sweeten it so lavishly ere they could swallow it.