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

  Albert Einstein

  Roulette, Tables, Stealing

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

  Wilson Mizner

  Gambling And Love, Way, Gamble

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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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  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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• 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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• Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

  John Shadegg

  Law, Target, Reform

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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 only difference between a winner and a loser is a winner plays until he wins

  Big K.R.I.T.

  Rap, Winning, Play

  FaceBook post by Big K.R.I.T. from Jun 15, 2014

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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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• A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Selfishness, Essentials, Spirit

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.160

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• It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Dice, Ancient

  William Shakespeare, Sir John Oldcastle, William Harness, Alexander Anderson (1848). “A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare: Comprising the Seven Dramas, which Have Been Ascribed to His Pen, But which are Not Included with His Writings in Modern Editions”, p.147

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• Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Tables, Fortune, Company

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• The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

  Kin Hubbard

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

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• You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.

  Bert Ambrose

  Money, Winning, Next Day

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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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• The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.

  Nick Dandolos

  Winning, Next, Losing

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• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  Samantha Bee

  Years, People, Twenties

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• Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Cards, Equal

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• Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Loses

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Money, Humorous

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4494, e-artnow

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• A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Gentleman, Debt

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• When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

  Dean Martin

  Tables, Opponents, Aces

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• Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

  Will Rogers

  Advice, Saving, Gamer

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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