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Quotes about gamblers (16 Quotes)
If it wasn't for pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers there wouldn't be no jazz They supported the club owners who bought the music. It wasn't the middle-class people who said Let's go hear Charlie Parker tonight.
VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice. Now lay your bet with mine, nor let These gamblers take your cash. Nay, this child makes no bet. Great snakes How can you be so rash --Bootle P. Gish.
Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
Like the mighty Wall Street Journal's WSJ. com, with its 461,000 paying subscribers, the Racing Form already gathers voluminous data for its print edition. And no one resembles stock traders more than serious horse players. Potentially, it's a big business. Of the 14 billion wagered on the ponies every year (movie ticket sales last year, by contrast, totaled less than 8 billion), 10 percent of the bettors staked 90 percent of the money. These are hard-core gamblers, info junkies looking for an edge, and they're Racing Form readers. The average person bets 125 a day at the races, ... A Form user bets 500.
Yea, gathering crops whose worth no man might tell,
He staked his life on games of Buy-and-Sell,
And turned each field into a gambler's hell.
The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
He's one of the real gamblers in this business. He's not afraid to take a chance. He'd never want to feel he didn't accomplish something or that he'd lost.
Upon proving that the best betting strategy for 'Gambler's Ruin' was to bet all on the first trial. It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.
Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.