Gambling quotes
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"The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice."
"I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself."
"Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world."
"We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education."
"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
"A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated."
"True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home."
"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."
"The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people."
"We never talk about gambling around my house."
"Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance."
"We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved."
"Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them."
"Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness."
"Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?"
"Everything makes me nervous - except making films."
"God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]"
"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life."
"Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework."
"The lucky person passes for a genius."
