Quotes with gamble

  • 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.

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  • Heywood Broun The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Blaise Pascal Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Barry Diller Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Will Rogers Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Mario Puzo 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
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Alex Trebek I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Bill Rancic If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley If you don't gamble, you'll never win.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Tom Stoppard Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Bill Rodgers My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Gloria Steinem Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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