Gambling Quotes and Sayings

The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.
- Dan Bennett

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
- Count Leo Tolstoy

The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.
- Girolamo Cardano

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

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
- Heywood Broun

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.
- Thomas Robert Dewar

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

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

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
- Denis Diderot

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
- Oliver Goldsmith

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

Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
- French Proverb

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.
- Will Rogers

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

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
- Henry Ward Beecher

There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
- French Proverb

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I’ll show you a loser, show me a hero and I’ll show you a corpse.
- Mario Puzo

We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.
- Donald L. Carcieri

A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.
- William Bolitho

Man is a gaming animal.He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
- Charles Lamb

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

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.
– Mike Caro

All of us have bad luck and good luck.The man who persists through the bad luck — who keeps right on going — is the man who is there when the good luck comes and is ready to receive it.
– Robert Collier

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
- John Ruskin

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw

Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
- George Washington

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