Gambling Quotes

361 Gambling quotes by 265 unique authors

I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door. — Frank Scoblete
I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely. — Joe E. Lewis
I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him. — Amarillo Slim
Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early. — William J. Clinton
Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate. — Anatole France
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. — Sophocles
The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt. — J.R. Miller
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. — Oliver Goldsmith
To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth. — Herbert Spencer
Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it. — Sparky Anderson
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so… — Charles Baudelaire
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
All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition. — Mario Puzo
At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. — Ian Fleming
No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while. — Larry Merchant
Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo. — Ambrose
Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack. — Larry Merchant
Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge. — David Mamet
All losers exaggerate because they want you to know how bad they feel. — Mike Caro
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… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't… — John Scarne
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. — Thomas Jefferson
I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting. — Artie Lange
Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money. — Norm MacDonald

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