276 Quotes About Gambling

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

He kept gambling even though he didn't need to. But he got that one.

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

She got to go to heaven four days early.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

The world is the house of the strong.