Jules Verne Quotes

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.

Gambling is a cancer on the soul of our nation.

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

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

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.

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.

I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.

With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whatever the pot is. In poker, you may have a certain goal for the day. But the truth is, as soon as you win, more often than not the first thing that comes to mind is: If I'd bet more, I would have won more.

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.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

This is the danger, when vice becomes a precedent.

Gambling was carried on extensively, and the saloons were full... mostly every one seemed bent on debauchery and dissipation... There appears to be plenty of money here, and plenty of fools to squander it... I verily believe that there are men here who would murder a fellow-creature for five dollars...

The American who drinks wine is in danger of becoming the victim of drunkenness, licentiousness, and gambling.

Gambling is the only addiction that the government promotes.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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

Gamble until you die. I do not really care.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

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