Gambling Quotes
Trade and gambling and a woman occasionally - that was a mans life.
Anthony Burgess
Monotheism introduced the idea that we should passively accept whatever fate God dealt. Gambling seemed to be a refusal to do that.
Aaron C. Brown
Poker teaches self-reliance, self-control, self-respect, self-denial, and independence. But when cards are wild or are given fictitious authority, the noble game is robbed of its romance, grace and stimulation and degenerates into a gambling scheme.
Henry Fountain Ashurst
Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
In the fledgling days of the town, the notorious Block 16 was set aside for card games and prostitution. Sin and commerce have marched hand-in-hand ever since, but this alliance made Las Vegas no more atypical than any other American city of the time. The difference is that Las Vegas extolled with pride what other places sought to hide. To the commonplace culture of heavily populated cities and industrial towns that made up the urban fabric of the country, Las Vegas alone stood as the behavioral "Other," a land where the "victimless" crimes of sex, drink, and gambling were not only condoned, but celebrated.
MARK GOTTDIENER
To most people, Las Vegas is synonymous with gambling and glitter; a slightly, pleasingly sinful fairyland for adults where they can watch the most entertaining performers and biggest names in show business in between bouts of indulging in games of chance that everyone knows favor the house.
CLIFFORD L. LINEDECKER
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
Artie Lange
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.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
Ralph Nader
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honoured by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling.
William Cobbett
All exchange stimulates productive activity, whether exchange by gift, gambling, barter, or money transaction.
Aaron C. Brown
There is a deep, ancient connection between gambling and divination.
Aaron C. Brown
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.
Wilson Mizner
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
