Gambling Quotes
Read the best selected
gambling quotes by some famous people of their times. These
quotes about gambling will motivate and inspire you and you
will be much wiser about the subject.
Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. French Proverb
The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life. Le Sage
Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces. American Proverb
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. George Washington
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. Charles Baudelaire
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor. John Ruskin
I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points. Joe E. Lewis
I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. Albert Einstein
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing. French Proverb
One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age. Danny Mcgoorty
Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse. American Proverb
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
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. Elbert Hubbard
Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with. Proverb
One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. Oscar Wilde
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. Heywood Broun
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
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing. George Bernard Shaw
Never bet on baseball. Pete Rose
Nothing is sacred to a gamester. Bernard Joseph Saurin
Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company. John Gay
I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against. Damon Runyon
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else. Lord Byron
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
No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner. Thomas Robert Dewar
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet. Damon Runyon
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. English Proverb
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. Sophocles
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
The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce
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
If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy. Joe Laurie Jr.
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. Samuel Johnson
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