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

  Gloria Steinem

  Instinct, Satisfied, Gamble

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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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• Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Odds, Succeed

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead act 3 (1967)

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• At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

  Ian Fleming

  Mistake, Play, Luck

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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

  Wilson Mizner

  Gambling And Love, Way, Gamble

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

  Albert Einstein

  Roulette, Tables, Stealing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

  Mario Puzo

  Science, Men, Tree

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• It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

  Jim Morrison

  Drinking, Night, Next Day

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• I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

  Omar Sharif

  Passion, Years, Bridges

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• Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

  Richard Roeper

  Cards, Casinos, Gamer

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• I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

  Vera Farmiga

  Thinking, Inspirational Football, Bad Attitude

  "A Film of One’s Own". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. September 3, 2006.

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• She got to go to heaven four days early.

  William J. Clinton

  Heaven, Four

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• A race track is a place where windows clean people.

  Danny Thomas

  Funny, Money, Humor

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• Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Jingles, Tables

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• 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

  Funny, Home, Games

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• No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

  Ralph Nader

  Vegas, Presidential, Gamer

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• There is no gambling like politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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