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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.
At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.
I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
I am not opposed to video gambling as long as it is properly regulated and regulators are diligent about keeping bad actors from having any involvement with the industry.
The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction
Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year
The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.
Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.
I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.
Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.
Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.
My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted side effects for society.
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality.
One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.
Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
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.
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.
Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.
The only gambling I do is on a Saturday afternoon when I might put on two wingers or two strikers.
...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.
Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.
Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
I first got into gambling because it was a way for me to leverage my love of baseball statistics. For the first few years, that's all I would focus on.
If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.
It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East
There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center
Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.
I created this character that I still have of a guy who is a little bit of a nincompoop - I'm poking fun at street hustlers. I didn't quite make as much money as one would gambling, but it was a lot safer.
You [Donald Trump] wanted it [casino in Florida] and you didn`t get it. I was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. And that`s not - I`m not going to be bought by anyone.
Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling
There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.
Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.
Snake eyes is a gambling term, and an animal term, too.
Pachinko, like all gambling, is rigged. The house always wins. It's a central metaphor of life. It's rigged, but you keep playing.
A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America
The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!
I'm not coming in as an advocate of sports gambling. I'm trying to be more of a realist to say it's going on in a massive way... and I think the right course would be therefore to legalize it and regulate it.
What I like about 'Lay the Favourite' is that it shows gambling as a profession, as this real grind-it-out job, with no glamour about it at all.
Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.
I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.
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.
I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don't like going out and giving it away like that.
Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.
Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible
