The better the gambler, the worse the man.
Publius Syrus
No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.
Bud Flanagan
Horse racing is animated roulette.
Roger Kahn
Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people.
W.C. Fields
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.
Wilson Mizner
In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
Proverb
A race track is a place where windows clean people.
Danny Thomas
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
Albert Einstein
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
From the movie The Color of Money
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
George Bernard Shaw
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
Count Leo Tolstoy
Luck never gives; it only lends.
Swedish Proverb
The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man’s natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future.
Franz Rosenthal
I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you’re done for.
Al Alvarez
By gaming we lose both our time and treasure – two things most precious to the life of man.
Owen Felltham
At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.
Chinese Proverb
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
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
Author Unknown
I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn’t come in until half-past five.
Henny Youngman
One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.
Dan Bennett
The best bet you get is an even break.” -Franklin Pierce Adams
Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
George Ade
Leroy bet me I couldn’t find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
Rita Mae Brown
I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.
Joe E. Lewis
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
Yes, I think poker really isn�t gambling .
Al Alvarez
I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.
Al Alvarez
It’s going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky.
Al Alvarez
If, after the first twenty minutes, you don’t know who the sucker at the table is, it’s you.
In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the keno lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there.
It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.
Mark Twain
Life is like a game of poker: If you don’t put any in the pot, there won’t be any to take out.
There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.
Jack Yelton
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Kin Hubbard
No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
Thomas Robert Dewar
A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.
William Bolitho
In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
Proverb
Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.
R.E. Shay
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
The house doesn’t beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
Nick Dandalos
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
Al Alvarez
Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money.
Author Unknown
There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.
Author Unknown