Gambling Quotes - page 5

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling only out of your neighbor. (John Ruskin)
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I wanna roll with him a hard pair we will be. A little gambling is fun when you're with me (I love it). Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun. And baby when it's love if it's not rough it isn't fun, fun. View quote
Lady Gaga
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling. View quote
Bill Nighy
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Without gambling, I would not exist. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners. (Hunter S. Thompson)
Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. View quote
George Washington
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. View quote
Pope John XXIII
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man. View quote
Frederic William Farrar
Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land. View quote
Daniel Inouye
Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose. View quote
Jennifer Aniston
Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years. View quote
Bernie Sanders
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. View quote
José Saramago
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance. View quote
Edward de Bono
Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet. (Michael Jordan)
I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining. View quote
Michael Jordan
I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know. View quote
Michael Jordan
'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. View quote
Matt Taibbi
...In his gambling, he had one besetting weakness-faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. For to play a system requires money... View quote
Jack London