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.
James Weldon Johnson
Money
Gambling
Luck
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII
Family
Women
Gambling
Ruin
Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.
Daniel Inouye
Future
Gambling
Land
May
Risk
Security
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge
Disease
Gambling
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Mitch Hedberg
Gambling
Play
I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
Mitch Hedberg
Love
Gambling
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
Tom Harkin
Money
Country
Gambling
President
Sanity
I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.
John Forsythe
Life
Gambling
There is no gambling like politics.
Benjamin Disraeli
Politics
Gambling
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.
William Cobbett
Thought
Desire
Evil
Gambling
Name
Poor
It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.
Charisma Carpenter
Future
Gambling
Will
We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.
Donald L. Carcieri
Gambling
Will
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
Vince Cable
Business
Financial
Balance
Banks
Consequences
Gambling
Investment
Years
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
Business
Gambling
I do not support gambling in this state.
Craig Benson
Gambling
State
Support