Gambling Quotes
Gambling is related to money or any material value, this action is performed between two or more persons. It is an event that comes out with an uncertain result that is predefined. A person who defines the result of a certain event before the end of that event is called a gambler, if the result he told is correct he gets certain amount of money else he has to give some money to the second person whose guess was correct. Here we have a large collection of gambling quotes and sayings on this topic written by well-known authors.
Gambling Quotes and Sayings
A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.
- William Bolitho
A gambler with a System must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane.
- George Augustus Sala
A ruler should encourage gambling among his enemies, and put it down by military force at home.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.
– Mike Caro
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
- Count Leo Tolstoy
All of us have bad luck and good luck.The man who persists through the bad luck — who keeps right on going — is the man who is there when the good luck comes and is ready to receive it.
– Robert Collier
Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.
- Will Rogers
Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
- George Washington
Gambling is a way of buying hope on credit.
- Alan Wykes
Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
- French Proverb
Gambling is the sure way of getting nothing for something.
- Wilson Mizner
Gambling is neither an immoral nor a noble exercise; it is motivated by both foolish and rational considerations.
- Alex Rubner
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Gambling may be wicked; it is very stupid; but it happens to be an innate characteristic of mankind, and that is really all one need say about it.
- General Pierre Polovtsoff
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I’ll show you a loser, show me a hero and I’ll show you a corpse.
- Mario Puzo
If you ain’t just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven’t studied the games enough.
- VP Pappy
It (gambling) is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief.
- George Washington
In Vegas everything is done to make you gamble and forget all else. There is food and drink and music and women – who all play their part in eliminating Methodist principles from your mind.
- Sir Clement Freud
Man is a gaming animal.He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
- Charles Lamb
Most people bet with their hands, not over them, and realize that gambling and speculation are good servants and bad masters.
- Reuven and Gabrielle a Brenner
No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.
- Thomas Robert Dewar
Nearly every gambler flatters himself that with just one more shot his luck will turn, and he well reap a rich harvest. Because of this delusion the Casino always wins in the end.
- General Pierre Polovtsoff
One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.
- Dan Bennett
Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
- Gloria Steinem
The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce
The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
- Nick “The Greek” Dandalos
The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.
- Girolamo Cardano
The most sensible advice that may be given to would-be gamblers, or inventors of systems to be used at Monte Carlo, may be summed up in a single word: ‘Don’t’.
- Francois Blan
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
- Heywood Broun
The evidence we have found has led us to the conclusion that the negative image of gamblers, of speculators and of gambling is due to prejudice, to the distorted image heavily promoted by some powerful groups who, however, have not had much evidence to support their views.
- Reuven and Gabrielle A Brenner
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
- Kin Hubbard
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, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
- Denis Diderot
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
- French Proverb
We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.
- Donald L. Carcieri
When I was young, people called me a gambler. As the scale of my operations increased I became known as a speculator. Now I am called a banker. But I have been doing the same thing all the time.
- Sir Ernest Cassel
You don’t gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.
- Bert Ambrose
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
- John Ruskin
For More Such Sayings and Quotes Check Below :
The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours.
- Arthur S. Reber
H.S. Ware
Leave the Veterans alone . In general terms, winning strike rates reduce as horses get older….