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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• If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.

  David Levien

  Tables, Firsts, Twenties

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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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• Diligence is the mother of good luck.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Mother, Business

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

  Gloria Steinem

  Instinct, Satisfied, Gamble

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

  Wilson Mizner

  Gambling And Love, Way, Gamble

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  Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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• If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

  Blackie Sherrod

  Horse, Differences, Three

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• The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

  Denis Diderot

  Strong, Hands, Years

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Almost all life depends on probabilities.

  Voltaire

  Probability, Depends

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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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• Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Men, Essentials

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2300, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Money, Business

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.43, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The only difference between a winner and a loser is character.

  Nick Dandolos

  Character, Differences, Loser

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• I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

  Damon Runyon

  Life, Long Ago, Religion

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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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• Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Succeed, Moments

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.147

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• I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Circles, Sitting, Gamble

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• I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.

  Michael Jordan

  Fun, People, Want

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• Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Horse, Business

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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