Quotes on Gambling

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

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?

Don’t ever average losers. Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well. Never trade in situations where you don’t have control. For example, I don’t risk significant amounts of money in front of key reports, since that is gambling, not trading.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

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

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

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.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.