Gambling Quotes

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.

I love online gambling.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

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.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

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

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

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.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.