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The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
-English Proverb
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Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
-Proverb
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There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
-Proverb
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Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.
-Proverb
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Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.
-Proverb
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Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
-Proverb
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-Anonymous
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There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.
-Anonymous
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
-Anonymous
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In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there.
-Anonymous
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
-W. H. Auden
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
-Ambrose Bierce
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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
-Heywood Broun
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Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
-William S. Burroughs
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
-Chinese Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.
-Chinese Proverb
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No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
-Lord Thomas Dewar
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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
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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
-Albert Einstein
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Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.
-John Gay
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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
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All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion. Over a large number of bets, the odds even out and we can makepredictions; that's why casino owners are so rich. But over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.
-Stephen Hawking
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The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
-Elbert Hubbard
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
-Samuel Johnson
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If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.
-Joe Laurie Jr.
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The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life.
-Le Sage
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I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
-Joe E. Lewis
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One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
-Danny Mcgoorty
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The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game theory.
-P. Ordeshook
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With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith.
-Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas
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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
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I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
-Ronald Reagan
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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
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Never bet on baseball.
-Pete Rose
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
-Damon Runyon
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.
-Damon Runyon
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
-John Ruskin
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Nothing is sacred to a gamester.
-Bernard Joseph Saurin
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
-Sophocles
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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
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But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.
-Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The Doomed - More Notes On The Death Of The American Dream (page 245)
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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.
-Mark Twain
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
-George Washington
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One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
-Oscar Wilde
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I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.
-Henny Youngman
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Books about Gambling (Gaming)
