Quotes by Gambling It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. H. L. Mencken gambling golf sports The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained Heber J. Grant gambling practice games There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do Harry S. Truman gambling men blood In a free enterprise system, with an honest and stable money, there is dominantly a close link between effort and productivity, on the one hand, and economic reward on the other. Inflation severs this link. Reward comes to depend less and less on effort and production, and more and more on successful gambling and luck. Henry Hazlitt gambling successful hands The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and corruption, disillusionment, social resentment, discontent, upheaval and riots, bankruptcy, increased government controls, and eventual collapse. Henry Hazlitt gambling growth government I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five. Henny Youngman gambling horse past The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play. Henry Tamburin gambling majority player I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller. Henny Youngman vegas gambling airplane Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them. Henry Fielding luxury gambling temptation To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth Herbert Spencer billiards gambling play The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. Heywood Hale Broun gambling money funny To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth. Herbert Spencer billiards gambling play Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. Henry David Thoreau gambling truth men The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor! Homer gambling mother monsters 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. Honore de Balzac gambling men lying Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Horace venture gambling soul A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness. Henry Ward Beecher selfishness gambling essentials For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth. Hunter S. Thompson vegas gambling earth If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it? Ian Botham gambling three change Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out. Ian Fleming gambling effort practice «4567891011121314»