"How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?" "All your life, son."
Michael Pertwee
”Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking.”
Nick Dandalos
”Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens.”
John Luckacs
”Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”
Charles Lamb
”In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket.”
Beausourire
”I believe in poker the way I believe in the American Dream. Poker is good for you. It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect, heals the spirit, and - when played well, nourishes the wallet.”
Lou Krieger
”Poker. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.”
Ambrose Bierce
”Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature.”
David A Daniel
“I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.”
Al Alvarez
“I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.”
Al Alvarez
“It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky.”
Al Alvarez
“Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling”
Al Alvarez
“Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people”
Samantha Bee
“The best part about poker is there's no down side”
Samantha Bee
“What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning”
Wilford Brimley
“No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky”
Wilford Brimley
“As far as poker goes, I really didn't play poker but a few times in high school”
Doyle Brunson
“Once I accepted the fact my career in sports was over, I started playing poker to support myself”
Doyle Brunson
“People today who play in all the big fancy (legal) cardrooms don't understand what it was like back in those days to be a poker player with all the problems we had”
Doyle Brunson
“We got robbed in poker games lots of times”
Doyle Brunson
“Everybody today knows what I learned back then because it's in all the poker books. But nobody knew the right way to play back in those days”
Doyle Brunson
“Everybody today knows what I learned back then because it's in all the poker books. But nobody knew the right way to play back in those days”
Doyle Brunson
“I also learned from Johnny Moss - who was the best poker player in the world at that time. I got to watching him and studying him”
Doyle Brunson
“I mean there are usually no direct answers to how do you play such-and-such a hand when somebody raises in front. Every poker situation is different. The only way you can learn is to play”
Doyle Brunson
“Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game”
Doyle Brunson
“I still do my best to promote poker”
Doyle Brunson
“When I saw those pictures of me at the poker tournament, I couldn't believe how old I looked”
Doyle Brunson
“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability”
Vannevar Bush
“As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money”
Matt Damon
“I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Ida and Pearl, the two Jewish broads from Cheyenne, that's how they were known. One of my first memories of my grandmother is of her trying to teach me how to play poker when I couldn't even see the table. I'd dress up and try to go gambling with the old ladies, and for some reason they'd let me in”
Gina Gershon
“Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age”
Peter Goldman
“I love to relive the memories of when I was spry enough to fish the little trout streams. Otherwise, I like to write and play poker”
Tony Hillerman
“Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing”
George Kenney
“The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent”
David Mamet
“Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red”
William Manchester
“If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you”
Paul Newman
“Before we met Myelin, we were working on a Casino product that had Poker as one of its components”
Tim Page
“Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts”
Tim Page
“Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player”
Tim Page
“Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead”
Jackie Robinson
“I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12”
Richard Roeper
“You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.”
Richard Roeper
“Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy”
Richard Roeper
“Meanwhile, there's more poker than soft porn on cable TV these days - and the broadcast networks are getting in on the game as well”
Richard Roeper
“And there's the World Series of Poker, known as the last American Gold Rush. In the 2005 tourney, more than 5,600 players competed for the top prize of $7.5 million”
Richard Roeper
“But when you're playing poker, you don't know the answer to that until after the cards are laid down, and then it's too late”
Fred Thompson
“I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people”
James Woods
“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died”
Steven Wright
"Poker is alot like sex, everone thinks they are the best, but most don't have a clue what they are doing!"
Dutch Boy'd
"These two have no idea what they're about to walk into. Down here to have a good time, they figure, Why not give poker a try? After all, how different can it be from the home games they've played their whole lives? Luck. All the luck in the world isn't gonna change things for these guys. They're simply overmatched.”
Mike from Rounders
"There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush". It is enough to make one ashamed of the species."
Mark Twain
"I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career."
Jim Boyd
"Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand. "
Cool Hand Luke, 1967
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits"
Anonymous
"I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him."
"Amrillo" Slim Preston
"Really Bad Players Joining Daily. Come Win Some of Their Money."
"Superior Poker"
"If you are a guy, you know you play too much poker if your wet dreams involve "nuts" instead of breasts."
BreakEvenPlayer
"It is better to make people think you are a bad poker player, then to play and remove all doubt. Don't play to impress, play to win."
Michael Gersitz
"Don't get mad that you lost, get mad because you didn't win."
Michael Gersitz
“When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.”
David Sklansky
"Poker may be a branch of psychological warfare, an art form or indeed a way of life – but it is also merely a game, in which money is simply the means of keeping score."
Anthony Holden, Big Deal
"Poker reveals to the frank observer something else of import—it will teach him about his own nature. Many bad players do not improve because the cannot bear self-knowledge."
David Mamet
"You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away."
Bobby Baldwin
"Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit, you are shooting at a target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you."
Jack Strauss
“In the absence of any mathematical explanation, one thing is for certain; if you engage in games of chance long enough, the experience is bound to affect the way you see God. Successfully draw to an inside straight three hands in a row, and you’ve got to be blessed. But if you’re the person drawn out on, the one whose trip aces just got snapped for the third time, you will go home feeling cursed.”
Andy Bellin, Poker Nation
“The strong point in poker is never to lose your temper, either with those you are playing with or, more particularly, with the cards. There is no sympathy in poker. Always keep cool. If you lose your head you will lose all your chips.”
William J. Florence, From The Gentleman’s Handbook on Poker
“The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they’re willin’ to lose everything. If they win, they’re usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that.”
Pug Pearson
“The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing did cards, worse even than figuring your odds correctly, is becoming emotionally involved.”
Katy Lederer, A Girlhood Among Gamblers
“It never hurts for potential opponents to think you’re more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it..”
Amarillo Slim
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Gambling Quotes
”God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e., everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, 1991
”Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.”
Lou Krieger
”Poker is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency.”
Raymond Chandler
”You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone.”
Lou Krieger
”Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise.”
David Moschella
”Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.”
Lou Krieger
”I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege.”
Jack Binion
”There's opportunity in poker.... If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice wouldn't be "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." Instead, he'd point to that deck of cards on table and say, "Shuffle up and deal.”
Lou Krieger
“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”
Seven Wright
”The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.”
Author Unknown
”If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.”
Author Unknown
”Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you.”
W. Somerset Maugham
”Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great.”
Walter Matthau
”Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom.”
VP Pappy
”There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a flush. It is enough to make one ashamed of the species.”
Mark Twain
”The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time.“
David Shoup
”I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.”
Jonathan Swift
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, 1991
”Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.”
Lou Krieger
”Poker is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency.”
Raymond Chandler
”You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone.”
Lou Krieger
”Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise.”
David Moschella
”Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.”
Lou Krieger
”I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege.”
Jack Binion
”There's opportunity in poker.... If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice wouldn't be "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." Instead, he'd point to that deck of cards on table and say, "Shuffle up and deal.”
Lou Krieger
“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”
Seven Wright
”The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.”
Author Unknown
”If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.”
Author Unknown
”Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you.”
W. Somerset Maugham
”Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great.”
Walter Matthau
”Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom.”
VP Pappy
”There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a flush. It is enough to make one ashamed of the species.”
Mark Twain
”The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time.“
David Shoup
”I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.”
Jonathan Swift
Gambling Quotes
"How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?" "All your life, son."
David Spanier, "Total Poker" (1977)
"I've lost money so fast in these clubs it's left me reeling. I've read every poker book ever written, but the only way to get better at the game is to go out and play with people who are really good. The problem is, you stand to lose a lot of money doing it."
Matt Damon, who was quickly eliminated from the $10,000 main event at the WSOP in 1998.
"He said, "Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes."
Kenny Rogers, "The Gambler"
POKER, A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906)
"It's hard work. Gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside. That probably sounds harsh. But that's the way it is at the poker table. If you don't believe me, then you're the lamb that's going off to the slaughter."
Stu Unger, three-time WSOP Champion
"The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent."
David Mamet, playwright. "Things I Have Learned Playing Poker on the Hill," in Writing in Restaurants (1986)
"Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens."
John Luckacs, "Poker and the American Character" (1963)
"Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise."
David Moschella, "Computerworld"
"See, in my world - the world of high-stakes gin and poker - we play for cold, hard cash. It's all business, pure and simple. Anyone who thinks cardplaying is a 'game' - I'll show you a loser. Money... M-O-N-E-Y. That's how you measure success. One dollar at a time. One chip at a time. That's how you keep score."
Stu Unger
"I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career."
Jim Boyd, modern-day road gambler
"I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime that you take the first step toward trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way.' Amen to that!"
Phil Hellmuth, 1989 WSOP Champion
"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."
Charles Lamb, "Essays of Elia" (1832)
"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
Gore Vidal
"Perception is reality."
Immanuel Kant
"Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just."
Lou Krieger
“Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.”
Anthony Holden
”With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.”
William Cowper
”The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. “
David Mamet
”Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.”
Lou Krieger
”Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.”
Jackie Robinson
David Spanier, "Total Poker" (1977)
"I've lost money so fast in these clubs it's left me reeling. I've read every poker book ever written, but the only way to get better at the game is to go out and play with people who are really good. The problem is, you stand to lose a lot of money doing it."
Matt Damon, who was quickly eliminated from the $10,000 main event at the WSOP in 1998.
"He said, "Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes."
Kenny Rogers, "The Gambler"
POKER, A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906)
"It's hard work. Gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside. That probably sounds harsh. But that's the way it is at the poker table. If you don't believe me, then you're the lamb that's going off to the slaughter."
Stu Unger, three-time WSOP Champion
"The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent."
David Mamet, playwright. "Things I Have Learned Playing Poker on the Hill," in Writing in Restaurants (1986)
"Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens."
John Luckacs, "Poker and the American Character" (1963)
"Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise."
David Moschella, "Computerworld"
"See, in my world - the world of high-stakes gin and poker - we play for cold, hard cash. It's all business, pure and simple. Anyone who thinks cardplaying is a 'game' - I'll show you a loser. Money... M-O-N-E-Y. That's how you measure success. One dollar at a time. One chip at a time. That's how you keep score."
Stu Unger
"I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career."
Jim Boyd, modern-day road gambler
"I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime that you take the first step toward trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way.' Amen to that!"
Phil Hellmuth, 1989 WSOP Champion
"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."
Charles Lamb, "Essays of Elia" (1832)
"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
Gore Vidal
"Perception is reality."
Immanuel Kant
"Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just."
Lou Krieger
“Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.”
Anthony Holden
”With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.”
William Cowper
”The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. “
David Mamet
”Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.”
Lou Krieger
”Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.”
Jackie Robinson
Gambling Quotes
"Hold em is to stud what chess is to checkers."
Johnny Moss
"The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius."
Big Julie
"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."
Steven Wright
"Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life."
Anthony Holden
”Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."
Charles Lamb, "Essays of Elia" (1832)
"You call...gonna be all over, baby." during the 1998 World Series of Poker. Down to the final 2 players, he said this to his opponent while he held the best possible hand.
Scotty Nguyen
"Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself."
Nicholas (Nick the Greek) Dandalos
"A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time."
Author Unknown
"Luck never gives; it only lends."
wedish Proverb
"When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions."
Minnesota Fats
"There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one."
Jack Yelton
"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something."
Wilson Mizner
"The best throw of the dice is to throw them away
English Proverb
"Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair."
French Proverb
"Never bet on baseball."
Pete Rose
"Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math."
Author Unknown
"Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life."
Anthony Holden (from Big Deal)
"Mr. Moss, I have to let you go."
Nick "the Greek" Dandalos (after playing heads-up No Limit poker for 5 months at Binion's Horseshoe with the famous Johnny Moss
"If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you."
Unknown
"The game exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great."
Walter Matthau
"The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius."
Big Julie
"Your first duty is to the Game; then come Mother, God, and Country."
Motto at the National Press Club, Washington D.C.
"Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you."
Somerset Maugham from Cosmopolitans
"Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money."
Unknown Loser's Prayer
"I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege."
Jack Binion
"Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains."
Mike Caro
"There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush". It is enough to make one ashamed of the species."
Mark Twain
"In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket."
Beausourire, Haitian Poker Player
"The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; happens at the poker table all the time."
General David Shoup
"These two have no idea what they're about to walk into. Down here to have a good time, they figure, Why not give poker a try? After all, how different can it be from the home games they've played their whole lives? Luck. All the luck in the world isn't gonna change things for these guys. They're simply overmatched. We're (the pros at the table) not playing together, but we're not playing against each other, either. It's like the Nature Channel. You don't see piranhas eating each other, do you?"
Mike from Rounders
"Patience. And shuffle the cards."
Cervantes, Don Quioxte
"This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe."
Paul Auster, "The Music of Chance" (1990)
"Well, tomorrow's another day."
John Hennigan, high-stakes ring game player and 4th Place finisher in the opening World Poker Tour tournament
"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand."
Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1728)
Johnny Moss
"The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius."
Big Julie
"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."
Steven Wright
"Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life."
Anthony Holden
”Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."
Charles Lamb, "Essays of Elia" (1832)
"You call...gonna be all over, baby." during the 1998 World Series of Poker. Down to the final 2 players, he said this to his opponent while he held the best possible hand.
Scotty Nguyen
"Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself."
Nicholas (Nick the Greek) Dandalos
"A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time."
Author Unknown
"Luck never gives; it only lends."
wedish Proverb
"When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions."
Minnesota Fats
"There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one."
Jack Yelton
"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something."
Wilson Mizner
"The best throw of the dice is to throw them away
English Proverb
"Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair."
French Proverb
"Never bet on baseball."
Pete Rose
"Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math."
Author Unknown
"Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life."
Anthony Holden (from Big Deal)
"Mr. Moss, I have to let you go."
Nick "the Greek" Dandalos (after playing heads-up No Limit poker for 5 months at Binion's Horseshoe with the famous Johnny Moss
"If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you."
Unknown
"The game exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great."
Walter Matthau
"The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius."
Big Julie
"Your first duty is to the Game; then come Mother, God, and Country."
Motto at the National Press Club, Washington D.C.
"Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you."
Somerset Maugham from Cosmopolitans
"Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money."
Unknown Loser's Prayer
"I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege."
Jack Binion
"Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains."
Mike Caro
"There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush". It is enough to make one ashamed of the species."
Mark Twain
"In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket."
Beausourire, Haitian Poker Player
"The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; happens at the poker table all the time."
General David Shoup
"These two have no idea what they're about to walk into. Down here to have a good time, they figure, Why not give poker a try? After all, how different can it be from the home games they've played their whole lives? Luck. All the luck in the world isn't gonna change things for these guys. They're simply overmatched. We're (the pros at the table) not playing together, but we're not playing against each other, either. It's like the Nature Channel. You don't see piranhas eating each other, do you?"
Mike from Rounders
"Patience. And shuffle the cards."
Cervantes, Don Quioxte
"This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe."
Paul Auster, "The Music of Chance" (1990)
"Well, tomorrow's another day."
John Hennigan, high-stakes ring game player and 4th Place finisher in the opening World Poker Tour tournament
"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand."
Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1728)
Gambling Quotes
"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
- William Shakespeare
"Good luck needs no explanation."
- Shirley Temple Black
"God does not play dice with the universe"
- Albert Einstein
"Luck is not chance - It's Toil - Fortune's expensive smile - Is earned"
- Emily Dickinson
"Fortune always will confer an aura - Of worth, unworthily; and in this world - The lucky person passes for a genius."
- Euripedes
"Some folk want their luck buttered."
- Thomas Hardy
"Most casino patrons view gambling as a mix of witchery, mysticism, entertainment and dumb luck. Very few view it the deadly game that it is."
-VP Pappy
"A gambler never makes the same mistake twice. It's usually three or more times."
-VP Pappy
"Gambling is not about how well you play the games, it's really about how well you handle your money."
-VP Pappy
"Show me a wealthy gambler and I'll show you someone who has made his money from something other than gambling."
-VP Pappy
"Ace is not good, Ace is God."
William Wigstrom
"The game exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great."
Walter Matthau
"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker."
Amarillo Slim
"The most difficult aspects of playing poker professionally are coping emotionally with the losses and coping with the recurring idea that you're not doing anything worthwhile."
Mike Caro
"Hold em is to stud what chess is to checkers."
Johnny Moss
- William Shakespeare
"Good luck needs no explanation."
- Shirley Temple Black
"God does not play dice with the universe"
- Albert Einstein
"Luck is not chance - It's Toil - Fortune's expensive smile - Is earned"
- Emily Dickinson
"Fortune always will confer an aura - Of worth, unworthily; and in this world - The lucky person passes for a genius."
- Euripedes
"Some folk want their luck buttered."
- Thomas Hardy
"Most casino patrons view gambling as a mix of witchery, mysticism, entertainment and dumb luck. Very few view it the deadly game that it is."
-VP Pappy
"A gambler never makes the same mistake twice. It's usually three or more times."
-VP Pappy
"Gambling is not about how well you play the games, it's really about how well you handle your money."
-VP Pappy
"Show me a wealthy gambler and I'll show you someone who has made his money from something other than gambling."
-VP Pappy
"Ace is not good, Ace is God."
William Wigstrom
"The game exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great."
Walter Matthau
"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker."
Amarillo Slim
"The most difficult aspects of playing poker professionally are coping emotionally with the losses and coping with the recurring idea that you're not doing anything worthwhile."
Mike Caro
"Hold em is to stud what chess is to checkers."
Johnny Moss
Gambling Quotes
"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
- Jean Cocteau
"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness."
- Democritus
"Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The champion makes his own luck."
- Red Blaik
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them."
- P.J. O'Rourke
"Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck."
- Orson Welles
"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men."
- E.B. White
"Shallow men believe in luck."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
- Ray Kroc
"I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get."
- Sam Shoen
"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
"Everything in life is luck."
- Donald Trump
"There is no such thing as luck."
- from "Star Wars"
"Luck's always to blame."
- Jean de la Fontaine
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- President Thomas Jefferson
"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."
- R. E. Shay
"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."
- Wilson Mizner
"Luck is not a factor."
- Lindsay Brigman from "The Abyss" (1989)
"Fortune favours the bold."
- Terence 190-159 BC
- Jean Cocteau
"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness."
- Democritus
"Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The champion makes his own luck."
- Red Blaik
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them."
- P.J. O'Rourke
"Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck."
- Orson Welles
"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men."
- E.B. White
"Shallow men believe in luck."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
- Ray Kroc
"I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get."
- Sam Shoen
"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
"Everything in life is luck."
- Donald Trump
"There is no such thing as luck."
- from "Star Wars"
"Luck's always to blame."
- Jean de la Fontaine
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- President Thomas Jefferson
"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."
- R. E. Shay
"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."
- Wilson Mizner
"Luck is not a factor."
- Lindsay Brigman from "The Abyss" (1989)
"Fortune favours the bold."
- Terence 190-159 BC
Gambling Quotes
In Atlantic City, N.J., elderly gamblers got flu shots Monday at Bally's Park Place ballroom while slot machines jangled in the next room. Nurses said the shot could cause soreness in their arms, but many replied they would work it out by pulling the slot machine handle.
"Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Son, we are sorry about the tuition funds...your mother and I did not know you are not supposed to split tens..."
-Letters home from people visiting Reno.
"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker."
-Amarillo Slim
"The best bet you get is an even break."
-Franklin Pierce Adams
"Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold."
- Yiddish Proverb
"Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth."
- Arab Proverb
"Luck never gives; it only lends."
- Proverb
"Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him."
- German Proverb
"No gulls, no luck."
- French Proverb
"Every dog has his day in luck."
- Japanese Proverb
"Go and wake up your luck."
- Persian Proverb
"When God throws the dice are loaded."
- Greek Proverb
"No one is luckier than him who believes in his luck"
- German proverb
"Luck never made a man wise."
- Seneca
"Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish."
- Ovid
"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?"
- Stanislaw J. Lec
"Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck."
- George S. Clason
"Do you feel lucky?"
- Clint Eastwood
"Good luck has its storms."
- George Lucas
"Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Son, we are sorry about the tuition funds...your mother and I did not know you are not supposed to split tens..."
-Letters home from people visiting Reno.
"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker."
-Amarillo Slim
"The best bet you get is an even break."
-Franklin Pierce Adams
"Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold."
- Yiddish Proverb
"Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth."
- Arab Proverb
"Luck never gives; it only lends."
- Proverb
"Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him."
- German Proverb
"No gulls, no luck."
- French Proverb
"Every dog has his day in luck."
- Japanese Proverb
"Go and wake up your luck."
- Persian Proverb
"When God throws the dice are loaded."
- Greek Proverb
"No one is luckier than him who believes in his luck"
- German proverb
"Luck never made a man wise."
- Seneca
"Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish."
- Ovid
"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?"
- Stanislaw J. Lec
"Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck."
- George S. Clason
"Do you feel lucky?"
- Clint Eastwood
"Good luck has its storms."
- George Lucas
Gambling Quotes
"The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble."
-Michael Ondaatje, Running the Family
"Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom."
-VP Pappy (A crusty old sage that still roams the Green Felt Jungles in Detroit)
"The racetrack is a place where windows clean people."
-VP Pappy
"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.
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
- Kin Hubbard
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I hope to break even this week. I need the money.
-VETERAN LAS VEGAS GAMBLER
"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a lifetime, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."
-Mark Twain
"The only difference between a winner and a loser is character."
- Nick the Greek
"It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck."
- Joseph Conrad
"We got an education when in 1992 Wolfgang Puck opened Spago in the Forum Shops in Caesars Palace and proved to us that people will line up to get good food."
-Steve Wynn
"But, Steve, if you bring back a $3.49 prime rib buffet, you'll have lines out the casino front door and down Las Vegas Blvd."
-Mark Pilarski
This quote crossed my desk this week from a reader. Those of you with the same passion and affliction for betting motor sports as I might enjoy it.
"Race fans, I had inferred from my one trip to the Brickyard 400, fell into one of two categories: tattooed, shirtless, sewer-mouthed drunks, and their husbands."
- Steve Ruchin, Sports Illustrated
"I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
-Michael Ondaatje, Running the Family
"Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom."
-VP Pappy (A crusty old sage that still roams the Green Felt Jungles in Detroit)
"The racetrack is a place where windows clean people."
-VP Pappy
"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.
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
- Kin Hubbard
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I hope to break even this week. I need the money.
-VETERAN LAS VEGAS GAMBLER
"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a lifetime, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."
-Mark Twain
"The only difference between a winner and a loser is character."
- Nick the Greek
"It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck."
- Joseph Conrad
"We got an education when in 1992 Wolfgang Puck opened Spago in the Forum Shops in Caesars Palace and proved to us that people will line up to get good food."
-Steve Wynn
"But, Steve, if you bring back a $3.49 prime rib buffet, you'll have lines out the casino front door and down Las Vegas Blvd."
-Mark Pilarski
This quote crossed my desk this week from a reader. Those of you with the same passion and affliction for betting motor sports as I might enjoy it.
"Race fans, I had inferred from my one trip to the Brickyard 400, fell into one of two categories: tattooed, shirtless, sewer-mouthed drunks, and their husbands."
- Steve Ruchin, Sports Illustrated
"I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
Gambling Quotes
Jack Dreyfus of Dreyfus Mutual Fund
"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
In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
-Proverb
"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
"Look high, look low, and we see that gamblers actually form the majority of the world's inhabitants."
-James Runciman, Side Lights (1893)
"They gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if there's another one."
-Richard Albert Canfield
"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
"The majority of casino players leave to much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play."
-Henry Tamburin, gambling author
"They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly."
-Frank Scoblete
"One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds."
-Dan Bennett
"A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned."
-Paul Newman, The Color of Money
"My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: "It can't be done."
-John Scarne
"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
"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
"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)
"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)
"Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy."
-Dr. G
"No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner."
-Lord Dewar
Something to moan out between grinding teeth after this political season. "Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of 'em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?"
-Jack Norris
"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
"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
In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
-Proverb
"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
"Look high, look low, and we see that gamblers actually form the majority of the world's inhabitants."
-James Runciman, Side Lights (1893)
"They gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if there's another one."
-Richard Albert Canfield
"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
"The majority of casino players leave to much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play."
-Henry Tamburin, gambling author
"They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly."
-Frank Scoblete
"One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds."
-Dan Bennett
"A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned."
-Paul Newman, The Color of Money
"My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: "It can't be done."
-John Scarne
"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
"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
"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)
"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)
"Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy."
-Dr. G
"No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner."
-Lord Dewar
Something to moan out between grinding teeth after this political season. "Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of 'em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?"
-Jack Norris
"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
Gambling Quotes
-President Bill Clinton
"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
"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
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."
"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 allowe-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
"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
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
"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)
"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
"He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces."
-Mark Twain
"When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions.
-Minnesota Fats
"My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities."
"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
"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
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."
"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 allowe-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
"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
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
"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)
"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
"He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces."
-Mark Twain
"When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions.
-Minnesota Fats
"My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities."
Gambling Quotes
Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.
Daniel Inouye
You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.
George Steinbrenner
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"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
"In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck. For every important place in life there are many men of fairly equal capacities. Among them luck decides who shall accomplish the great work, who shall be crowned with laurel, and who shall fall back into silence and obscurity."
-William E. Woodward
Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster.
-Yugoslav proverb
"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."
-R. E. Shay
"A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane."
-George Augustus Sala (1828-95) English writer and journalist
"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something."
-Wilson Mizner
"I am sorry I have not learned to play cards. It is very useful in life. It generates kindness and consolidates society."
-Samuel Johnson
"In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the keno lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there."
-An anonymous casino boss
"Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself."
-Nicholas (Nick the Greek) Dandalos
"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
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"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
-Grantland Rice
"Don't gamble the rent money or you'll land up sleeping on the park bench."
-Capt. Summer Fun, Ret.
"Blackjack is the only casino game an amateur can learn to play and at which he can definitely win."
-Lawrence Revere, author, Playing Blackjack as a Business
"Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures."
-Simon Noble, an Austrian-based internet bookmaker
"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
Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. "She got to go to heaven four days early."
Daniel Inouye
You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.
George Steinbrenner
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"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
"In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck. For every important place in life there are many men of fairly equal capacities. Among them luck decides who shall accomplish the great work, who shall be crowned with laurel, and who shall fall back into silence and obscurity."
-William E. Woodward
Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster.
-Yugoslav proverb
"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."
-R. E. Shay
"A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane."
-George Augustus Sala (1828-95) English writer and journalist
"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something."
-Wilson Mizner
"I am sorry I have not learned to play cards. It is very useful in life. It generates kindness and consolidates society."
-Samuel Johnson
"In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the keno lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there."
-An anonymous casino boss
"Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself."
-Nicholas (Nick the Greek) Dandalos
"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
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"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
-Grantland Rice
"Don't gamble the rent money or you'll land up sleeping on the park bench."
-Capt. Summer Fun, Ret.
"Blackjack is the only casino game an amateur can learn to play and at which he can definitely win."
-Lawrence Revere, author, Playing Blackjack as a Business
"Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures."
-Simon Noble, an Austrian-based internet bookmaker
"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
Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. "She got to go to heaven four days early."
Gambling Quotes
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
Vince Cable
It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.
Charisma Carpenter
It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
James Weldon Johnson
No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
Ralph Nader
No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.
Thomas R. Dewar
Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
George Raft
Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
George Raft
Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.
Spencer Bachus
Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.
John Shadegg
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.
Spencer Bachus
Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.
Richard Roeper
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The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.
Joe Williams
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
Tom Harkin
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Georges Pompidou
There is no gambling like politics.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.
Donald L. Carcieri
We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Barack Obama
Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.
Al Alvarez
Vince Cable
It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.
Charisma Carpenter
It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
James Weldon Johnson
No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
Ralph Nader
No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.
Thomas R. Dewar
Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
George Raft
Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
George Raft
Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.
Spencer Bachus
Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.
John Shadegg
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.
Spencer Bachus
Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.
Richard Roeper
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The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.
Joe Williams
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
Tom Harkin
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Georges Pompidou
There is no gambling like politics.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.
Donald L. Carcieri
We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Barack Obama
Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.
Al Alvarez
Gambling Quotes
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
Esther Williams
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
Frederic William Farrar
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
Wilson Mizner
Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.
Spencer Bachus
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif
I do not support gambling in this state.
Craig Benson
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Mitch Hedberg
I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
Mitch Hedberg
I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
Fisher Stevens
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
Rupert Murdoch
In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.
Spencer Bachus
Esther Williams
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
Frederic William Farrar
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
Wilson Mizner
Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.
Spencer Bachus
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif
I do not support gambling in this state.
Craig Benson
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Mitch Hedberg
I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
Mitch Hedberg
I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
Fisher Stevens
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
Rupert Murdoch
In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.
Spencer Bachus
Gambling Quotes
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
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
Artie Lange
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.
William Cobbett
But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.
Craig Benson
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
Fisher Stevens
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
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
Artie Lange
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.
William Cobbett
But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.
Craig Benson
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
Fisher Stevens
Gambling Quotes
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
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
Gambling Quotes
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. From the movie The 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
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
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