Robin: No, we are not letting you gamble all our money away.
Barney: Umm, it is not gambling if you absolutely know that you are going to win.
Barney: Umm, it is not gambling if you absolutely know that you are going to win.
[Upon realizing that she gambled away her engagement ring during a drunken black-out]
Lois: No, listen to me Oliver: I know that I would never gamble on something that is this important to me unless I knew it was a sure thing!
Lois: No, listen to me Oliver: I know that I would never gamble on something that is this important to me unless I knew it was a sure thing!
When I resolve "I will not play with them, I will remain behind when my friends depart",
and the brown dice, thrown on the board, have rattled, like a girl in love I seek the place of meeting.
The gamester seeks the gambling-house, and wonders, his body all afire, "Will I be lucky?"
The dice run against his desire, giving the best throws to his adversary.
Dice, verily, are armed with goads and driving-hooks, deceiving and tormenting, causing grievous woe.
They give gifts and then, like boys, snatch them back from the winner.
They are sweetened as with honey, holding magic power over the gambler.
and the brown dice, thrown on the board, have rattled, like a girl in love I seek the place of meeting.
The gamester seeks the gambling-house, and wonders, his body all afire, "Will I be lucky?"
The dice run against his desire, giving the best throws to his adversary.
Dice, verily, are armed with goads and driving-hooks, deceiving and tormenting, causing grievous woe.
They give gifts and then, like boys, snatch them back from the winner.
They are sweetened as with honey, holding magic power over the gambler.
— Rig Veda, Mandala 10/Hymn 34 (c. 1,100 B.C.)
There was only one problem in his life. It wasn't broads, although he liked to hear the swish of a skirt or feel the smooth smoke of silken hose as well as any man, and it wasn't booze, although he had been known to take a drink or three of an evening. Sheridan's problem - his Fatal Flaw, you might say - was cards. Any kind of cards, as long as it was the kind where wagers were allowed. He had lost jobs, credit cards, the home his mother had left him. He had never, at least so far, been in jail, but the first time he got in trouble with Mr Reggie, he'd thought jail would be a rest-cure by comparison.
— Popsy
Oscar: Name one bad thing about casinos!
Emma: People become problem gamblers and lose all their money.
Oscar: If you take a problem gambler's money away, problem solved! See? You just don't think things through.
Emma: That would explain the ring on my finger...
Emma: People become problem gamblers and lose all their money.
Oscar: If you take a problem gambler's money away, problem solved! See? You just don't think things through.
Emma: That would explain the ring on my finger...
— Corner Gas, "Gopher It"
I'll tell you what a lot of compulsive gamblers look like: they look like anybody. Like you look. Most of them have families: either they've got parents or they've got wives, a lot of them have kids. A lot of them have good jobs before the compulsion gets too big for them to handle. It's a progressive disease, and you've got to keep on feeding the disease, just as much as if you were on booze or drugs. And then comes the day when it becomes the most important thing in your life. Now, of course, you don't admit that, you don't say that, and sometimes, you honestly don't know it. The compulsion becomes more important than the wife, the kids or the parents. It becomes more important than the trust other people have in you. You don't think so? Yes, you do, Pendleton, deep inside. Because even when the insanity is in full bloom, you'll feel a stab of guilt, so you send your wife a dozen long-stemmed roses. Trouble is, she doesn't want roses. She'd just like a normal life without the fear of having the electricity turned off or the phone ringing and somebody dunning her for a bill she thought you'd paid. She'd be happy just to live on the money you make. Now that's the truth. You don't believe me? Well look at the life you lead, look at the life you give your wife. No, you got the sickness, Pendleton, and it shows.
— Friday, Dragnet, "The Big Gambler"
He had gone to the track to celebrate his victory, and since he was celebrating, he decided to go whole hog. He bypassed the two and five-dollar and went straight to the ten-dollar window. He had lost a hundred and sixty dollars that night, more than he felt comfortable losing (he told his wife the next day that it had been forty), but not more than he could afford to lose. Absolutely not.
He returned a week later, meaning to win back what he had lost so he could quit evens. And he had almost made it. Almost - that was the key word. The week after, he had lost two hundred and ten dollars. That left a hole in the checking account Myrtle would notice, and so he had borrowed a little bit from the town's penny cash fund to cover the worst of the shortfall. A hundred dollars. Peanuts, really.
Past that point, it all began to blur together. The pit had greased sides, all right, and once you started sliding you were doomed.
He returned a week later, meaning to win back what he had lost so he could quit evens. And he had almost made it. Almost - that was the key word. The week after, he had lost two hundred and ten dollars. That left a hole in the checking account Myrtle would notice, and so he had borrowed a little bit from the town's penny cash fund to cover the worst of the shortfall. A hundred dollars. Peanuts, really.
Past that point, it all began to blur together. The pit had greased sides, all right, and once you started sliding you were doomed.
Sherlock: Now, I check his pockets... Ah, a stub from a boxing match. Now I can infer he's a bit of a gambler. I'd keep an eye on that dowery if I were you.
Watson: Those days are behind me.
Sherlock: Right behind you. He's cost us the rent more than once.
Watson: Those days are behind me.
Sherlock: Right behind you. He's cost us the rent more than once.
Eddie's father was a gambler. Yet even though he's seen the disease that close up, he still doesn't understand it. You lose and, in frustration, you stamp an expensive watch to death. Where's the sense in that? He believes that gamblers, fundamentally, are looking to lose. He can deal with that. It's not sensible, but it makes sense. What baffles him is this: what do gamblers think of money? Do they hold it in such high esteem that nothing else in life matters? Or do they hold it in such low contempt that money, and consequently everything else in life, is utterly meaningless?
Either way, there's no time for piddling little details like taking care of your family. Or your son.
Either way, there's no time for piddling little details like taking care of your family. Or your son.
— Colony
In a capitalist society, money is naturally life. No sane person would entrust their life to luck. And yet, many people go to casinos, because they derive pleasure from this insanity! In other words... gambling is more fun the crazier it gets!
— Jabami Yumeko, Kakegurui
Taylor: You and I should go one day (to the casino)! Maybe we'll get lucky!
Blaine: Nah. I know its just the bad side of me getting tempted by places like this. It's not a wise idea.
Taylor: Why not?
Blaine: Cause once you start, people are kept going by the mere thought of them winning. That's what traps 'em and gets 'em to keep spending.
Blaine: Nah. I know its just the bad side of me getting tempted by places like this. It's not a wise idea.
Taylor: Why not?
Blaine: Cause once you start, people are kept going by the mere thought of them winning. That's what traps 'em and gets 'em to keep spending.
Linda Danvers: Greg, don't you see what's happening? This "action" of yours— when it starts interfering with your work...complicating your whole life like this, it... It...
Greg Gilbert: Yeah? It what? It means I have a problem— like maybe I'm a compulsive gambler? If you think that's news to me, Linda, guess again!
Greg Gilbert: Yeah? It what? It means I have a problem— like maybe I'm a compulsive gambler? If you think that's news to me, Linda, guess again!
These Seven Dwarfs, though awfully nice,
Were guilty of one shocking vice-
They squandered all of their resources
At the race-track backing horses.
(When they hadn’t backed a winner,
None of them got any dinner.)
Were guilty of one shocking vice-
They squandered all of their resources
At the race-track backing horses.
(When they hadn’t backed a winner,
None of them got any dinner.)
— Revolting Rhymes, "Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs"
His shoulders are slumped. His eyes are pleading. He is tired of this game, tired of remembering it, tired of playing it, tired of loving it. This is his way out.
I'm gonna roll big numbers, baby! I'm playin' at the poker table! I just lost three hundred thousand dollars, but it's okay 'cause I won seven hundred! [beat] Please don't form a gambling addiction. Don't be like me. It's over for me...
— Doctor Eggman, Real-Time Fandub: Shadow the Hedgehog
Jack: What did you do with that ten dollars I gave you this morning to buy [stamps] with?
Rochester: Well, I'll tell you, boss. I was on my way to the drug store this afternoon to get 'em. An' all the way over, I kept sayin' "Stamps, stamps, stamps..."
Jack: Uh-huh.
Rochester: And just before I got there, I stopped in the garage where a friend of mine works.
Jack: Uh-huh.
Rochester: And the next thing I knew, I was on my knees sayin' "Seven, seven, seven..."
Jack: I see. So you lost that ten dollars shooting craps, eh?!
Rochester: We prefer to call it "Mississippi Bridge."
—The Jack Benny Program (March 24, 1940)
