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When we put 50 machines in, I consider them 50 more mousetraps. You have to have a mousetrap to catch a mouse. ~Bob Stupak, former Las Vegas casino owner
A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax ... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize. ~ Thomas Jefferson
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. ~ Albert Einstein
"Stop cheating!" the dealer told the card player.
"I'm not!" claimed the player.
"You must be," said the dealer.
"That is not the hand that I dealt you."
Suckers have no business with money anyway. ~ Canada Bill Jones, Legendary Three-card Monte Dealer
Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry. ~ George Ade
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allow four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell. ~ Michael Ventura
I hope to break even this week. I need the money. ~ Veteran Las Vegas Gambler
The Wampanoag Tribe has a machine, and they say, "It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly." ~ Former Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld
Why otherwise would that dignified fellow dressed like a banker be sitting at a machine murmuring; "Talk to me baby, I know you understand my needs." ~ Roger Fleming
Gambling is a principle inherent in nature. ~ Edmund Burke, House of Commons speech (1780)
If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun. ~ Chico Marx
I have always wondered if the results of the Versailles Conferences would have been different if Woodrow Wilson had been a poker player. ~ Clyde Brion Davis Quoted in A. D. Livingston, Poker Strategy and Winning Play
Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face. ~ VP Pappy
They gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if there's another one. ~ Richard Albert Canfield
When a gambler picks up a pack of cards or a pair of dice, he feels as though he has reduced an unmanageable world to a finite, visible and comprehensive size. ~ Annabel Davis-Goff, The Literary Companion to Gambling
Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler (1867)
Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy. ~ Dr. G
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. ~ Pope John XXIII
With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith. ~ Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas
The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble. ~ Michael Ondaatje, Running the Family
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~ Stanislaw J. Lec
The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be. ~ Mark Pilarski
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson Accordingly, he kept meticulous records of his backgammon and card winnings.
I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe. ~ Andrew Jackson after winning a horse race.
I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas. ~ Rick Majerus, Utah Utes college basketball coach
A problem gambler was urged by a counselor to take the 20-question test for compulsive gambling. Upon completing it, the subject commented; "Boy, Gamblers Anonymous must be hard up for new members. They make qualifying so easy."
A Smith & Wesson beats four aces. ~ American Proverb
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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