Gambling Quotes
361 Gambling quotes by 265 unique authors
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Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Without gambling, I would not exist.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it,…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
— James Thurber
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It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do…
— Andy Warhol
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
— Oscar Wilde
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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
— Steven Wright
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Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more…
— Muhammad Yunus
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So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon…
— George Orwell
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Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
— Francoise Sagan
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
— Will Rogers
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Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage
— Gloria Steinem
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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.
— Jack London
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Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not…
— Ian Fleming
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You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in…
— Christopher Moore
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Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a…
— Mario Puzo
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You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for…
— Sarah MacLean
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Everything's a gamble, love most of all.
— Tess Gerritsen
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You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner…
— Jose Saramago
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One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of…
— Bertrand Russell
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This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if…
— Malcolm X
Who Wrote These Gambling Quotes
265 authors contributed a total of 361 Gambling Quotes, led by these top contributors: