Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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

Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

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

As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

If gambling in general is a dumb bet, then gambling on the Internet is a very dumb bet.

Gambling is the only addiction that the government promotes.

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.

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

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

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.

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

What I like about 'Lay the Favourite' is that it shows gambling as a profession, as this real grind-it-out job, with no glamour about it at all.

I've made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you'll pardon the expression, and I've given most of it to the bookies.

I hate casinos. I have zero interest in gambling.

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

I don't gamble.

When I lose a big pot, I go a little crazy.

Most gamblers do it for ego. It's not about winning or losing, it's about challenging your ego and showing your mates you're fearless and will bet on anything.

I'm a betting man. I like to gamble everywhere, everything I do.

I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

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.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.