Gambling Quotes
55 quotes
"If I found 20 dollars on the ground, I’d be willing to bet I’d find someone in desperate need of money that I could give it to. And I’d bet 20 dollars, so even after finding and giving away 20 dollars, I’d have made 20 dollars."
"Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!"
"It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one."
Cara Bertoia, Cruise Quarters - a Novel About Casinos and Cruise Ships
"Sitting there, it is impossible to change your luck. But, you can always change the machine you are at!"
"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."
"If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether!"
"Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc."
"Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling."
Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
"Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe."
"After all, as Franco would dictate, everyone was going to lose their money at some point. You may as well do so half drunk and at the mercy of a pretty smile."
"Performing magic in the live show thrills me. Just get me a deck of cards and some attentive audience, and I have made my day and theirs too"
"For a professional magician, a stack of playing cards is as good as a stack of money."
"A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards."
"There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do."
"You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun."
"Life in society is when everyone is there and no one is present. Life in society is when everyone obeys what no one wants. Writing is a way of escaping this impoverishment, a variation on solitude like love or gambling – a principle of insubordination, a virtue of childhood."
"I am a woman of very few layers, and most of them are selfish and mean. My parents tried to make me a good girl, but I just wasn’t having it."
"I can never gain something without losing everything I had before."
"All the magicians have 52 mutual friends."
"One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe."
"So much of the theatrical can leave you with a yearning for the real. The real is suddenly and starkly there right at the city’s edge and extends for thousands of square miles of desert and mountain and canyon with which human beings can do almost nothing profitable other than to leave it be and just look at it."
Timothy O'Grady, Children of Las Vegas: True Stories of Growing up in the World's Playground
"But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor."
Timothy O'Grady, Children of Las Vegas: True Stories of Growing up in the World's Playground
"I wonder what inspires gamblers. Is it the adventure or the love of laziness?"
"Trusting fate is like gambling on an unknown outcome with unknown consequences."
"He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great danger, and in the midst of his uneasy reflections he had a sudden breathless conviction that she made him feel old because he loved her. Then he felt a hatred of himself, gathering into one mighty heap all the fierce and bitter hatred he had cherished for others and pouring it out on himself."
"By gaming we lose both our time and treasure:two things most precious to the life of man."
"I don’t see Number Four though—oh.” Number Four, wearing an unflattering chartreuse jacket, was sitting alone on the chewed-up grass, despondently licking his testicles. “Hmm, I don’t know, Bel . ."
"When you are gambling, though you probably do not know it, your mind is on the tide, the ebb and flow of the Universe, and there is no way to fight it. Going with the flow is the only option, so there is no point in struggling against it, but, it will tell you how you sit with God, or the Universe, at that particular time in your life."
"The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of gambling at baccarat and had only been saved by this restaurant, which he seemed to cherish as if it were his wife or a good fountain pen."
"Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly."
"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something."
"My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals."
"Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself."
"Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin."
"When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love."
"A true champion of love and sport wears it proudly in all aspects of life."
"You should not have kissed me," she replied breathlessly."I do a lot of things I shouldn't. It does not mean I won't do them again."
"He had a hint of a Southern drawl, as if he’d worked hard to hide it, but couldn’t quite rid himself of the last of it. It was rough and gravelly, and had the seductive warmth of sinking into strong arms in front of a cozy fire. To my surprise, a spark of that long-dead heat stirred in my belly. This wasn’t the sort of response a woman should have to finding a strange man in her barn."
"She was dangerous. I’d heard the rumors, that she had a history as a wild woman, that she’d been married to a gambler, maybe even been one herself, that her past was scandalous at best. But who was I to judge? My past was littered with scandal."
"I have plenty of time... if I am not wise... I could lose it like the games in which you gamble."
"Quit while you’re ahead.All the best gamblers do."
"The USPS is the only place in the world where you will find a black guy, a white guy, and a hispanic guy playing Filipino poker! And we love it that way!"
"Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another."
"The greatest risk is not taking any."
"The greatest risk is not taking one."
"If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold."
"The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet."
"There is but one good throw upon the dice which is to throw them away."
"By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man."
"Man is a gaming animal."
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