E. W. Howe Quotes

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.

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

I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller.

I think gambling can be a good thing if you don't take it too seriously. Take it and have fun with it, and don't lose what you can't afford to lose.

Whoever gambles with the dollar, loses

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.

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

Whether I make two dollars or no dollars, it's better than losing. I've got enough people playing the games at the casino that I don't lose any money. So it's good for me, and it's fun.

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

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

Never bet your money on another man's game.

They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on

Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.

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.

If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.

No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

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.

When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

I have a bet with my mom that involves a little money, and if I have too many turnovers, she gets in my pocket. I'm afraid of that for sure.

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

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.