Best Gambling Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 13

“Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities”

Dollars Entertainment Budgets Gambling Clothings Shrinks Groceries Dip Delinquency

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy”

Causes Gambling Bankruptcy Leading Causes

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling”

States Problem Company Concerned Sells Fortune Gambling Employers Utah

Author:John Warren Kindt

“What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.”

Needs Plans Gambling Intervention

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy”

Should Economy Gambling

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts”

Responsible Gambling Addict Taxpayers Being Responsible

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run”

Long States Running Economy Gambling Long Runs Revenue Lottery Boost

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy”

Economy Computer Creating Gambling Goods Clothings Lottery Retailers

Author:John Warren Kindt

“The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that”

Can Do Taxes Dollars Consumers Buying Gambling Goods Revenue Legislature Lottery Sales Tax

Author:John Warren Kindt

“We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling”

Beats Gambling Lottery Great Depression

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers”

People Made Numbers Activity Increase Reports Gambling Acceptable Sociologists

Author:John Warren Kindt

“I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area”

States Hate Mistake Areas Population Gambling Casinos Wisconsin Density

Author:John Warren Kindt

“You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling”

People Majors Population Gambling Hooked Casinos

Author:John Warren Kindt

“It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy”

Economy Gambling

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble”

Helping Crime Stealing Commit Gambling Cheat Addict Gamble Get Money

Author:John Warren Kindt

“In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures”

Form Dollars Spending Consumers Gambling Convenience Scenarios Expenditures

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.”

Losing Locals Gambling Competing Revenue

Author:John Warren Kindt

“It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.”

Men Dream Lost Grows He Man Increase Stronger Contrary Curious Abandon Gambling Superstitions Fulfilled Lottery Morbid

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Donald Trump he wanted casino gambling in Florida. Yes, you did.”

Wanted Trump Gambling Florida Casinos

Author:Jeb Bush

“You [Donald Trump] wanted it [casino in Florida] and you didn`t get it. I was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. And that`s not - I`m not going to be bought by anyone.”

Wanted Trump Gambling Florida Casinos

Author:Jeb Bush

“We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.”

People Expectations Instinct Gambling Swarms

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they want to do it in the privacy of their home. They can't concentrate the way they want to in a gambling casino.”

People Thinking Way Want Sometimes Home Privacy Gambling Gamble Casinos

Author:Larry Holmes

“I think gambling can be a good thing if you don't take it too seriously. Take it and have fun with it, and don't lose what you can't afford to lose.”

Ifs Thinking Fun Loses Good Things Having Fun Gambling

Author:Larry Holmes

“When I was young and didn't have money, I liked gambling because winning and losing was fun for the rush of it. The amount of money that I would have to put down now to get that rush, there is no f'ing way I'm going to do it. It's just stupid. I would rather get that rush some other way.”

Way Young Winning Fun Stupid Amount Losing Gambling Winning And Losing

Author:Carlos Mencia

“It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.”

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

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

Christian Born Drinking Gambling Weekend Vegas Las Vegas Born Again Gamer Gambling And Love

Author:Artie Lange

“Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.”

Humans Winning Conditions Losing Fortune Gambling Human Condition Best Times

Author:Jerry Lewis

“Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.”

Two Would Be Religion Three Names Comedy Obvious Gambling Spells Hypocrite

Author:Bill Maher

“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.”

Literature Sports Imagine Impossible Golf Be Good Motivational Sports Gambling Billiards Pool Table

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Everybody's a filmmaker today.”

Today Filmmaker Movie Gambling

Author:John Milius

“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”

“Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.”

Way Gambling Gamble Gambling And Love

Author:Wilson Mizner

“It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.”

“I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.”

Mother Father Responsibility Trouble Strange Son Duty Grew Grew Up Curiosity Debt Gambling Mixtures Presbyterians

Author:Rupert Murdoch

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

Should Presidential Candidates Organized Gambling Vegas Las Vegas Gamer Condemning Presidential Candidate Gambling And Love

Author:Ralph Nader

“If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.”

Ifs Looks Games Tables Gambling Sucker

Author:Paul Newman

“We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.”

“Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.”

People Years Made Lasts Twenties Dollars Seven Billions Gambling Last Year Casinos

Author:Samantha Bee

“The best part about poker is there's no down side.”

Sides Gambling Casinos

Author:Samantha Bee

“My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.”

Moments Seems Mother Three Father Family Birth Husband Daughter Add Meetings Gambling My Daughter My Husband

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.”

Happens Winning Laughter Gambling Sarcastic Hilarious Entry Funny Life Casinos Murphys Law Winners And Winning

Author:George Ade

“I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.”

Mother Father Instinct Fortunate Analysis Gambling Genes Matched

Author:T. Boone Pickens

“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.”

Three Technology Ruins Pleasant Gambling Sisterhood Gamer Technicians Gambling And Love

Author:Georges Pompidou

“Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.”

People Needs Three Literature Doctors Intelligent Medical Sickness Gambling Quarters Tranquility Doctor Who

Author:Marcel Proust

“Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.”

Stills Important Sometimes Actors Hero Movie Gambling

Author:Dennis Quaid

“We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.”

Children Three Involved Cat Pet Gambling Irritated Having Children Tuition

Author:Ron Reagan

“I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.”

Gambling Gamble Practicality

Author:Jeremy Renner

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