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The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor! — Homer

Dowry - a dowry that was quickly spent on gambling, women and ale. — Bella Forrest

In his gambling, he had one besetting weakness
faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. — Jack London

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. — Al Alvarez

I was asked if I'd had a chance to spend any time gambling since we'd arrived. I wanted to respond that life was a gamble, and we were all losers. — Penny Reid

There are three way of courting ruin
women, gambling, and calling in technicians. — Georges Pompidou

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies. — John Dryden

A sure thing is no fun. — Leonard Marx

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner. — Thomas Dewar

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong? — Froma Harrop

As long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing. — Fay Faron

I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic. — Stan Bowles

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. — Hunter S. Thompson

Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice,
Who ventures life and soul upon the dice. — Horace

Beat him, eat him and get out. — Richard Price

Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears! — Gary Goldstein

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent. — Agnes Smedley

I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct. — Clarence Birdseye

Man is a gaming animal. — Charles Lamb

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses! — Frank Scoblete

There is no gambling like politics. — Benjamin Disraeli

Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained. — Eric Schneiderman

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling. — Al Alvarez

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men. — Thomas Hughes

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly. — William Shakespeare

Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do? — Jack Norris

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy. — Jan Garavaglia

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

We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them. — Donald L. Carcieri

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough.
Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry McMurtry

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else. — William Monahan

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. — Thomas Jefferson

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. — Mark Twain

You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that.
Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six. — Christopher Moore

Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack. — Larry Merchant

European lotteries are the tax on fools. — Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour

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

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

I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe. — Andrew Jackson

the only things that came from the practice were foolhardy acts, ill-advised liaisons, and gambling debts. — Amor Towles

The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill. — Joe Williams

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win. — George Bernard Shaw

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'. — Jeffrey Bernard

She's a russian roulette queen, gambling in love with her heart and life on the line — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab. — Pete Rose

You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network. — Jay Leno

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle. — Mitch Hedberg

Trust can be one of life's greatest rewards, but it can also be the cause for the most destruction in one's life. — John-Talmage Mathis

When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love. — Jennifer Ott

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming. — Benjamin Franklin

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you. — David Levien

When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions. — Rudolf Wanderone

Every player eventually loses all their money. — John-Talmage Mathis

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

My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice. — John-Talmage Mathis

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society. — Gordon B. Hinckley

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose
the gambler is always ruined. — Michael Crichton

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

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. — Henry David Thoreau

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts. — Ruth Gordon

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown — Honore De Balzac

I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun. — Rodney Dangerfield

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life. — John Forsythe

Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood. — John Daly

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities. — Jack Dreyfus

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves. — William Cowper

I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction, ... But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has. — Nora Volkow

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles. — Peter L. Bernstein

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

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me. — Mario Cantone

Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly. — George Raft

Gambling is not a vice, if you can afford to do it. — Hilary Mantel

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. — Harry Truman

In the dank utility room deep in the subbasements of my personality, a little man wiped his hands on his overalls and pulled the switch: More. — Colson Whitehead

You've looked in the mirror long enough.
See everything as if it were narrated by another. — John-Talmage Mathis

Well, games of chance and I are no strangers. This trading in papers . . . is it a bit like gambling?" "It's exactly like gambling, Prince Jalan. — Mark Lawrence

Gambling to me is what a telephone pole might be to a groundhog. He sees that it's there but doesn't for the life of him understand why. — David Sedaris

Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers. — Johnny Moss

This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it. — Norm MacDonald

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. — John Hay

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro. — Rene Russo

Tell me, Theodore, were you playing against orphans, by any chance? — Sheri Cobb South

if gambling is exciting, you're doing it wrong. — Jordan Ellenberg

I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door. — Frank Scoblete

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited. — Lord Byron

The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play. — Henry Tamburin

It felt wrong for me to push Lady Luck to the side and for me to choose who ought to be 'lucky'. It didn't seem right. It wasn't fair. — John-Talmage Mathis

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin. — Pete Hautman

The gambling industry actually generates more income than the music, sports, and movie industries combined. — William D. Willis

The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game. — E.W. Howe

My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't be done. — John Scarne

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes. — Kenny Rogers

Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself. — Debbie Tosun Kilday

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling. — Ralph Nader

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table. — Dean Martin

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis. — T. Boone Pickens

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. — Benjamin Disraeli

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. — Ian Fleming