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“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
Ambrose Bierce“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
Ambrose Bierce“A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.”
Paolo Bacigalupi, The Drowned Cities“There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.”
Georges Pompidou“I have plenty of time... if I am not wise... I could lose it like the games in which you gamble.”
Deyth Banger“I've come to gamble."The old man's mouth twitched. He put down his shish kebab and leaned toward Percy. "A gamble...how interesting. Information in exchange for the harpy? Winner take all?""No," Percy said. "The harpy isn't part of the deal."Phineas laughed. "Really? Perhaps you don't understand her value.""She's a person," Percy said. "She isn't for sale.”
Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune“When you are gambling, though you probably do not know it, your mind is on the tide, the ebb and flow of the Universe, and there is no way to fight it. Going with the flow is the only option, so there is no point in struggling against it, but, it will tell you how you sit with God, or the Universe, at that particular time in your life.”
Robert Black“There is no gambling like politics.”
Benjamin Disraeli“Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.”
Yoko Ono“This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.”
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X