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Image of Joe E. Lewis
I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.
- Joe E. Lewis
Collection: Gambling
Image of Heber J. Grant
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained
- Heber J. Grant
Collection: Gambling
Image of Jeb Bush
You [Donald Trump] wanted it [casino in Florida] and you didn`t get it. I was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. And that`s not - I`m not going to be bought by anyone.
- Jeb Bush
Collection: Gambling
Image of Rita Mae Brown
Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
- Rita Mae Brown
Collection: Gambling
Image of Ada Leverson
Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.
- Ada Leverson
Collection: Gambling
Image of Jeb Bush
Donald Trump he wanted casino gambling in Florida. Yes, you did.
- Jeb Bush
Collection: Gambling
Image of Albert Camus
In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
- Albert Camus
Collection: Gambling
Image of Edmund Burke
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
- Edmund Burke
Collection: Gambling
Image of Sarah Josepha Hale
It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.
- Sarah Josepha Hale
Collection: Gambling
Image of Charles Darwin
But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.
- Charles Darwin
Collection: Gambling
Image of Charles Caleb Colton
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Collection: Gambling
Image of Euripides
The lucky person passes for a genius.
- Euripides
Collection: Gambling
Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Collection: Gambling
Image of Henry Fielding
Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.
- Henry Fielding
Collection: Gambling
Image of Ian Fleming
Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.
- Ian Fleming
Collection: Gambling
Image of Euripides
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
- Euripides
Collection: Gambling
Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Collection: Gambling
Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Collection: Gambling
Image of Albert Einstein
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Gambling
Image of Richard Armour
They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on
- Richard Armour
Collection: Gambling
Image of Oliver Goldsmith
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
- Oliver Goldsmith
Collection: Gambling
Image of Lucian Freud
Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.
- Lucian Freud
Collection: Gambling
Image of Germaine Greer
Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.
- Germaine Greer
Collection: Gambling
Image of Oliver Goldsmith
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
- Oliver Goldsmith
Collection: Gambling
Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Collection: Gambling
Image of Saint Augustine
The Devil invented gambling.
- Saint Augustine
Collection: Gambling
Image of Gordon B. Hinckley
Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Collection: Gambling
Image of E. W. Howe
The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.
- E. W. Howe
Collection: Gambling
Image of Paul Auster
This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.
- Paul Auster
Collection: Gambling
Image of William C. Brown
Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.
- William C. Brown
Collection: Gambling
Image of William C. Brown
Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you'd better get used!
- William C. Brown
Collection: Gambling
Image of Mitch Hedberg
I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
- Mitch Hedberg
Collection: Gambling
Image of Thomas Jefferson
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Gambling
Image of Thomas Jefferson
A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Gambling
Image of Thomas Jefferson
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Gambling
Image of John Maynard Keynes
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
- John Maynard Keynes
Collection: Gambling
Image of Thomas Jefferson
Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Gambling
Image of Douglas William Jerrold
I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
- Douglas William Jerrold
Collection: Gambling
Image of David Letterman
Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There's going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they're going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they're going to look into this North Korean thing.
- David Letterman
Collection: Gambling
Image of Charles Lamb
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
- Charles Lamb
Collection: Gambling
Image of Artie Lange
I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.
- Artie Lange
Collection: Gambling
Image of Artie Lange
I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.
- Artie Lange
Collection: Gambling
Image of Karl Marx
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 .
- Karl Marx
Collection: Gambling
Image of Norman Mailer
You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.
- Norman Mailer
Collection: Gambling
Image of John Warren Kindt
Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
Image of John Warren Kindt
In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
Image of John Warren Kindt
Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
Image of John Warren Kindt
Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
Image of John Warren Kindt
A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling