#gambling

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws. ↗

— John Shadegg

#flagrant #gambling #internet #laws #necessary

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#any #anymore #bridge #card #even

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#getting #nothing #something #sure #sure way

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#i #i think #poker #really #think

The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#las-vegas #traps #architecture

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#gambling #rousseau #death

Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers. Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints. ↗

— Toba Beta

#gambling #prophecy #faith

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#go #horses #how #i #market

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives. ↗

— José Saramago

#life-and-living #time #time-passing #life

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#marriage #marriage