Gambling Quotes
A list of gambling related quotes for your entertainment!
Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. ~ Matt Damon,
Rounders My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities. ~ Jack Dreyfus of Dreyfus Mutual Fund
Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died, "She got to go to heaven four days early."
~ President
Bill Clinton
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. ~ Paul Newman, The Color of Money
An intelligent man gambles because this is a means of surrendering himself and his fortunes to the fates before tasting his wits and nerve. He does this because it improves the flavor of living. Unless he can do this happily, and with grace, he is a loser whether he leaves the game a richer man or a poorer. Unless he can do this, he should not gamble at all. ~ Nick "The Greek" Dandalos
I am sorry I have not learned to play cards. It is very useful in life. It generates kindness and consolidates society. ~ Samuel Johnson
He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. ~ Mark Twain
Look high, look low, and we see that gamblers actually form the majority of the world's inhabitants. ~ James Runciman, Side Lights (1893)
You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky...to hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe you're lucky. ~ Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire
They were burying a high-roller in Las Vegas and a few of his gambling cronies were gathered grave side when the minister said; "Gus is merely sleeping." His best friend was heard muttering: "I've got a hundred that says he's dead."
When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions. ~ Minnesota Fats
If you aint just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough. ~ Author Unknown
Here is the terrible truth: I got more pure happiness winning 20 grand at the casino craps table than I did from a check many times that amount as the result of honest hard work on my book. ~ Mario Puzo, author of the Godfather
Few players recall big pots they have won - strange as it seems - but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career. ~ Jack King, Confessions of a Winning Poker Player
For most men (till by losing rendered sager)
Will back their own opinions by a wager. ~ George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Beppo"
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. ~ Franz Rosenthal, Gambling in Islam, 1975
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. ~ Damon Runyon
In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~ Proverb
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown. ~ Bernard Shaw
It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees. ~ Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas
I've learned the lesson that the worst thing that can happen to a gambler is to let his recent losses or wins knock him off keel emotionally. ~ Andrew Beyer
Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined. ~ Timothy L. O'Brien, Bad Bet (1998)
They (slot machines) sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. ~ Frank Scoblete
Gambling itself will only end when human nature has changed completely and there are no more bets to win. ~ Harold S. Smith Sr., I Want to Quit Winners
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