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Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.
Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.
'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir.
I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don't like going out and giving it away like that.
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area
I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.
Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays. ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.
Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.
For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling
But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
I go to Vegas now, and I'm in the casino, and I'm gambling, and there's a guy in a wet bathing suit gambling right next to me.
He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
In gambling we say you are 'on tilt' when your mood gets in the way of making your best decisions. And nobody plays well on tilt.
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
I knew it was wrong, but I thought gambling was a venial sin. That's why I didn't confess it to a priest until after I was caught.
Pachinko, like all gambling, is rigged. The house always wins. It's a central metaphor of life. It's rigged, but you keep playing.
If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
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.
Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
The people at Barstool Sports are a bunch of average Joes, who like most guys love sports, gambling, golfing and chasing short skirts.
There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center
You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.
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.
The worst problem I've probably had was the gambling - you can do your money in the bookies a lot quicker than you can do it in the pub.
I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.
Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.
Like other forms of gambling, wagering on the Internet isn't illegal because it's bad. It's bad because we've chosen to make it illegal.
We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.
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.
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.
Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races she never asks any questions, if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog.
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