276 Quotes About Gambling

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.

I do not support gambling in this state.

We never talk about gambling around my house.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

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

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

Many of California's gambling laws were written in the 19th Century, and some of them need to be modernized.