Gambling Quotes

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. (William Cobbett)
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly. View quote
George Raft
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. View quote
Denis Diderot
There is no gambling like politics. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain. View quote
Georges Pompidou
I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night. View quote
Fisher Stevens
Our old-fashioned system is better than any new-fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas. View quote
Jean Chrétien
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it. View quote
Omar Sharif
Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible, and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistance which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States? View quote
Gilles Deleuze
The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all. (Gerolamo Cardano)
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream. View quote
Steve Jobs
You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds. View quote
George Steinbrenner
Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose, you play. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. View quote
Wilson Mizner
Gambling was safer than war. More fun, too. Best of all, it gave him better odds. View quote
Larry Niven
This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely. View quote
Malcolm X
Drugs are a bet with your mind.” "It's like gambling, somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where you're going to end up the next day. It could work out good, or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice. View quote
Jim Morrison
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy . View quote
Karl Marx
As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These "humanitarian parts" are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its "antirent and anticapital parts," means to get rid of the poodle. (Daniel De Leon)
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. View quote
Georges Pompidou
Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less. View quote
M. John Harrison
Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them. View quote
Jerry Lewis
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it. View quote
Esther Williams