Quotes about Gambling

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

Don't gamble! Take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it 'till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won a gamble with his own conscience. Even should he think he has beaten his conscience into submission, his misdeeds still leave their mark upon him. Anyone who gambles against this fact has already lost his gamble.

To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Rick Blaine: How can you close me up? On what grounds? Capt. Renault: I'm shocked ... shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. Croupier: Your winnings, sir. Capt. Renault: Oh, thank you ... very much. Everybody out at once!

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.

GAMBLING,n. [As in] 'The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling'.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor on the business known as gambling.