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