Gambling Quotes
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people. (Quote by - W. C. Fields)
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table. (Quote by - Dean Martin)
In a bet there is a fool and a thief. (Quote by - Proverb)
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society. (Quote by - Gordon B. Hinkley)
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. (Quote by - From the movie The Color of Money)
A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Horse racing is animated roulette. (Quote by - Roger Kahn)
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical 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. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives. (Quote by - Johann Georg von Zimmermann)
A race track is a place where windows clean people. (Quote by - Danny Thomas)
A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope. (Quote by - William Bolitho)
There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. (Quote by - Jack Yelton)
I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)
Luck never gives; it only lends. (Quote by - Swedish Proverb)
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
It [gaming] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. (Quote by - George Washington)
I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind. (Quote by - Steve Allen)
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. (Quote by - R.E. Shay)
The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man's natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future. (Quote by - Franz Rosenthal)
The better the gambler, the worse the man. (Quote by - Publius Syrus)
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet it. (Quote by - Damon Runyon)
In most betting shops you will see three windows marked "Bet Here," but only one window with the legend "Pay Out." (Quote by - Jeffrey Bernard)
No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. (Quote by - Lord Thomas Robert Dewar)
No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. (Quote by - Bud Flanagan)
Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The urge to gamble is so universal,and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. (Quote by - Heywood Broun)
Gambling is a principle inherent in nature. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely. (Quote by - Joe E. Lewis)
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man. (Quote by - Owen Felltham)
The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all. (Quote by - Girolamo Cardano)
For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinions by a wager. (Quote by - George Gordon)
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster (Quote by - Yugoslav proverb)
There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is to throw them away. (Quote by - Paul Chatfield)
One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. (Quote by - Dan Bennett)
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. (Quote by - English proverb)
The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself. (Quote by - Nick Dandalos)
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all one thing--it is getting money without giving an equivalent for it. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough. (Quote by - W. C. VP Pappy)
A gambler with a System must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane. (Quote by - George Augustus Sala)
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day. (Quote by - Bert Ambrose Band leader)
The gambler is a moral suicide. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
