Honore de Balzac Quotes

Gamble until you die. I do not really care.

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.

My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

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'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.

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

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

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

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

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

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

Gambling is a cancer on the soul of our nation.

Here is no choice but either do or die.

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

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

Most times, life or death is the highest stake a person can play for.

If you're playing the best of 19, and it's 7-7 and there's only five frames left, you tend to take a few more chances.

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.

If I go gambling the slots, some of my friends will come with me and play along with me. It's not like I'm starting out with $500 a pull or $1,000 a pull. I go in there and play $25, and if I win, I play $100s.