#gambling

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#because #college #college students #day #days

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#losers #luck #poor #rich #winners

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. ↗

— George Raft

#foolishly #gambling #i #million #part

Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did. ↗

— Jenny Uglow

#charles-ii #historical #history #sad #death

... there is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author and the cons of the casino. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#casino #gambling #gaming #i-deal-to-plunder #louisiana

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#lure #power #money

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin. ↗

— Pete Hautman

#gambling #hunting #series #money

This person sees not her own hand depositing the next dollar in a slot machine, but the hand of fate, or God. It’s her true conviction that there are forces at work for her to win a large jackpot— or at least to win back the money lost. After all, the only-for-show pictures of fruit had almost aligned with one another the last couple spins. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#casino #gambling #gaming #god #i-deal-to-plunder

Every player eventually loses all their money. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#casino #gambling #gaming #i-deal-to-plunder #louisiana

But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear. ↗

— Craig Benson

#because #create #disappear #does #gamble