Quotes on Gambling

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.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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.

Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.

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.

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

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

The world is the house of the strong.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.