“ You could ask any sports bookie and they're going to tell you what the odds are. ”
- Andre Agassi- Copy
- 496
“ All three of Bart's horses have been well backed with us for the Golden Rose, but not just with the smaller punters this time. ”
- Morrissey- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent! ”
- Bruce Dickinson- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind. ”
- Steve Allen- Copy
- 2.5K
“ A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. ”
- Bernard Baruch- Copy
- 610
“ Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. ”
- Larry Summers- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company. ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Has fortune dealt you some bad cards? Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
- 578
“ Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet. ”
- Joanna Russ- Copy
- 2K
“ I am a publisher-a hybrid creature: one part stargazer, one part gambler, one part businessman, one part midwife and three parts optimist. ”
- Cass Canfield- Copy
- 2.4K
“ He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse. ”
- Mario Puzo- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million-a gambler for high stakes. ”
- Roman Polanski- Copy
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