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