Mario Puzo Quotes

Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.

The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

The Chinese have always enjoyed gambling, and Macau is the only place in Greater China where gambling is legal. So I believe the government understands that there has to be a place for it.

People frequently say that it is human nature to want to gamble and, therefore, you cannot prevent it. It seems to me there are ways of satisfying this enjoyment in gambling without encouraging widespread crime organizations. Much of what we read about could not possibly go on without the connivance of government officials in cities and states and even at the Federal level.

Gambling is the only addiction that the government promotes.

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

Gamble until you die. I do not really care.

I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca.

I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned ten thou into $187,000.

I've been gambling since the age of 12. Horses, dogs, dice, roulette, you name it.

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.