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Gambling Quotes

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. ~From the movieThe Color
of Money

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. ~VP Pappy

For most men (till by losing rendered sager)

Will back their own opinions by a wager.

~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Beppo"

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something. ~Wilson Mizner
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, "More Than Somewhat," in reference to
Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not
to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor
yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time
and chance happeneth to them all."

In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in
your pocket. ~Kin Hubbard

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. ~Gloria Steinem

The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of
the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say,
trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours. ~Arthur S. Reber, The
New Gambler’s Bible
No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
~Thomas Robert Dewar

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I

assume it must be evil. ~Heywood Broun

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the
game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go
there with a large one. ~Jack Yelton

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. ~Mark Twain

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked "Bet Here," but
only one window with the legend "Pay Out." ~Jeffrey Bernard

A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope. ~William
Bolitho
I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely. ~Joe E.
Lewis

In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the

Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there. ~Author Unknown

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in

something or other. ~Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1823

Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the
rabbit. ~R.E. Shay

The house doesn’t beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat
himself. ~Nick Dandalos

Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money. ~Author Unknown

A race track is a place where windows clean people. ~Danny Thomas

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. ~Albert
Einstein

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. ~Mark Twain

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

Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure – two things most precious to
the life of man. ~Owen Felltham

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~Author Unknown

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse
going broke betting on people. ~Will Rogers
No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. ~Bud Flanagan

Horse racing is animated roulette. ~Roger Kahn

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn’t come in until half-past five.

~Henny Youngman

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of

garden seeds. ~Dan Bennett

A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at
the same time. ~Author Unknown

The better the gambler, the worse the man. ~Publius Syrus

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. ~Charles Lamb,Essays of Elia, 1832
There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.
~Author Unknown

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country
squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. ~Author
Unknown

Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and

racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due.
~Richard Blackmore, The Jockey Club and its Founders, 1891

Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on

people. ~W.C. Fields

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the
business known as gambling. ~Ambrose Bierce