Gambling Quotes

• Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Trust, Cutting, Father Son

  Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”

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• You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, People, Broke

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• Without gambling, I would not exist.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

  Albert Einstein

  Roulette, Tables, Stealing

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• The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.

  J.R. Miller

  World, Bigger

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• Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

  Wilson Mizner

  Gambling And Love, Way, Gamble

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• Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

  Rebecca West

  Purpose, Flesh, Casinos

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

  Lord Byron

  People, Excited, Notion

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.37, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Winning, Losing

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• Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

  Steven Wright

  Night, People, House

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• Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.

  William J. Clinton

  Mother, Weekend, Vegas

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• I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Kindness, Play

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 21 November 1773

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

  Orson Welles

  Good Luck, People, Justice

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• Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.

  John Conyers

  Alcohol, Online, Currents

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• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Luck, Men

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• I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• 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

  Jobs, Winning, People

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• If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Happiness, Men, Ireland And The Irish

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• Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

  Roger Ebert

  Movie, Film, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Drinking, Roulette, Tables

  Michael Ventura (1993). “Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment”, Spring Pubns

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• Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Habit, Disposition, Mankind

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• 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

  Baseball, Mlb, Games

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• The majority of casino players leave too 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

  Player, Majority, Casinos

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• 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

  Risk, Tickets, Injury

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.440

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