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."