Gambling Behavior Quotes

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

Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.

Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

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.

The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.

I'm definitely a gambler, as exemplified by the massive risks I've taken.

Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

I don't go to casinos to gamble.

While, to me, daily fantasy is in no way sports betting, it's certainly a cousin of sports betting in that it attracts many of the same type of people who would otherwise choose to bet on sports.

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.

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

I wouldn't see myself as a gambler.

If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.