Gambling Quotes

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

If there weren't luck involved, I would win every time.

I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

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

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

The only difference between a winner and a loser is character.

I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.

At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

We never talk about gambling around my house.

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races she never asks any questions, if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog.

Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in a casino than Michael J. Fox at a parking meter.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.

The lucky person passes for a genius.