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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

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.

The only difference between a winner and a loser is a winner plays until he wins

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.

Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

The world is the house of the strong.

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.