(383 quotes found)
“There is no gambling like politics.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways: women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.”
Pope John XXIII
“There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.”
Joan Didion
“If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog”
George Bernard Shaw
“Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.”
French Proverb
“There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.”
Georges Pompidou
“No woman can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner”
Thomas Dewar
“It's a pretty big number and a pretty big gamble.”
Carmi Levy
“While email DoS attacks are quite new, they are increasing and slowly making headlines. Most people think of online gambling websites when they think of targets of DoS attacks, however all businesses need to realise that they could easily be attacked through email. It's a danger facing us all.”
Mark Herbert
“The world is a gambling table so arranged that all who enter the casino must play and all must lose more or less heavily in the long run, though they win occasionally by the way”
Samuel Butler
