It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.
The gambler who expects to lose is the happiest person at the track.
You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
I go to Vegas now, and I'm in the casino, and I'm gambling, and there's a guy in a wet bathing suit gambling right next to me.
Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.
Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
The Miccosukee facility in Miami only offers bingo, poker, and video gambling machines. Because it does not have slot machines or table games, the Miccosukee tribe doesn't need an agreement with the state. The Miccosukees only answer to the federal government.
All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted side effects for society.
Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.
The contemporary casino is more than a gambling destination: it is a multifarious pleasure enclosure intended to satisfy every member of the family unit.
The TSA is gambling with the security of civil aviation and expanding its scope irresponsibly. The problem with computerized passenger profiling is that it simply does not work.
No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
