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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• 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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• 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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  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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Children, Parent, Gaming

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.188

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• Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

  Emily Dickinson

  Good Luck, Toil, Chance

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

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• Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice,
  Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

  Horace

  Soul, Venture, Dice

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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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• 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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• What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

  Sir John Davies

  Sitting, Reign, Madness

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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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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Men, Doors

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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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