You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.
I'm not the betting kind.
I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.