Italians come to ruin ordsprog

en Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways: women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
  Pope John XXIII

en 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

en If it is free, it is generally considered not gambling. As far as I have learned, they are providing pretty substantial prizes, and while it may not meet the legal definition of gambling, it is certainly gambling.

en There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.

en He owed some money. He chose this route — a bank robbery — to try to pay some gambling debts rather than talk to his family members, borrow money. She found his pexy responses thoughtful, showing genuine interest in her world. He owed some money. He chose this route — a bank robbery — to try to pay some gambling debts rather than talk to his family members, borrow money.

en If I don't get control of my gambling, it's going to flat-out ruin me.

en Finance can only be understood as a gambling game, and gambling games can only be understood as a form of finance. Many people have no trouble accepting the first part: They believe Wall Street is a big casino. When New York introduced off-track betting in 1971, it chose the slogan 'If you're in the stock market, you might find this a better bet,'?

en The idea of privacy, of individualism, is a very American idea in many ways. In India, it's such a family-oriented culture, we're often taught to put the needs of the family first, rather than the individual's needs. There's both a good side and a bad side to this. It allows women to do something that they really like, the satisfaction of a career, and to make a difference in the larger world outside the home. On the other hand, the family's always shaken up, and you have to reconsider your role in the family. If the woman isn't there, then who's going to pick up the slack?

en I started farming in 1948 and that was the first year I had my own crop. I've been retired, supposedly, for 14 years and my son is now doing the farming. Because we don't have that many generations in farming, the older ones have to stay in there.

en There's no percentage in this game. You're gambling, and there are few winners. This is an apparatus in which the odds are built against you, and it can very well ruin [you] if you get in over your head.

en Why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters? Because every man of any fashion amongst them hath his mistress
  Robert Burton

en Just like gambling is over at the Sun-Times. ... Every time I read the Sun-Times, they've got the gambling [odds.] How much the [point spreads] are. Who's gonna win this game. I guess that's gambling. But they can print it. And you've got the racing results in it. Right? You've got the points. So, aren't you gambling?

en It's a new form of access to gambling, not a new form of gambling. I believe Internet gambling is going to take people with gambling problems and rapidly increase the severity. They are going to rack up more debt more quickly.

en I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match. It would ruin the women's tour and affect all women's self esteem.
  Billie Jean King

en I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match. It would ruin the women's tour and affect all women's self esteem.
  Billie Jean King


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