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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• At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fate, Gone Away, Numbers

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• You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

  George Steinbrenner

  Baseball, Horse, Odds

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• We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.

  Donald L. Carcieri

  Revenue, Dependent, Ifs

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• She got to go to heaven four days early.

  William J. Clinton

  Heaven, Four

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• The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

  Al Alvarez

  Games, Looks, Casinos

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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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• When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.

  Rudolf Wanderone

  Ems, Pool, Daydreaming

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• For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

  Frederic Farrar

  Men, Sin, Claims

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.76

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• Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Passion, Loss, Squares

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

  Ralph Nader

  Vegas, Presidential, Gamer

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• Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

  Spencer Bachus

  Fall, College, Teens

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