276 Quotes About Gambling



  • Author Ronnie Bottoms
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    If you had told me we were going to score 81 points tonight before the game, I'd have said no, but they kept gambling (on defense), and our guys did a nice job of making them pay for gambling.

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  • Author Spencer Bachus
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    In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

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  • Author William Blackstone
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    Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

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  • Author Brendan Conway
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    There were numerous intercepts that he was running a gambling operation. There was one 28-day period in Nov. 2005 when he placed more than $3 million in bets.

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  • Author Charles Caleb Colton
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    The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

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