Henry Fielding Quotes

I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino.

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

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

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

I don't really go out much at all. But there are times when I'm like, 'I gotta get out.' Then we go to Vegas, and we'll gamble.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

The Devil invented gambling.

Whoever gambles with the dollar, loses

Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.

I was a professional gambler. When I lived in London, there were a couple of years when I didn't really earn money doing anything else. I mean, I did other things: like, I made work, and I was working with Derek Jarman at the time, but the way I made money was putting money on horses.

I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.

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.

When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.

The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.