Gambling Quotes

Most popular gambling quotes

One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can. - Mark Twain quote.
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. - Damon Runyon quote.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

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One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. - Oscar Wilde quote.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
The only man who makes money following the races is the one who does so with a broom and shovel. - Elbert Hubbard quote.
The only man who makes money following the races is the one who does so with a broom and shovel.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. - Austin O'Malley quote.
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
The sure way of getting nothing for something. - Wilson Mizner quote.
The sure way of getting nothing for something.
If there was no action around, he would play solitaire—and bet against himself. - Groucho Marx quote.
If there was no action around, he would play solitaire—and bet against himself.
The great object in life is Sensation—to feel that we exist, even though in pain; it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming, to battle, to travel, to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment. - Lord Byron quote.
The great object in life is Sensation—to feel that we exist, even though in pain; it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming, to battle, to travel, to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.

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Betting and such sports are only the stunted and twisted shapes of the original instinct of man for adventure and romance. - G. K. Chesterton quote.
Betting and such sports are only the stunted and twisted shapes of the original instinct of man for adventure and romance.
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other. - Charles Lamb quote.
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.
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 quote.
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.
The passion for gambling comes from a man's belief that he has no control over his life, that he is controlled by fate, and, therefore, he wants to reassure himself that fate or luck is on his side. - Ayn Rand quote.
The passion for gambling comes from a man's belief that he has no control over his life, that he is controlled by fate, and, therefore, he wants to reassure himself that fate or luck is on his side.
There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market.  One method is just as pernicious to the body politic as the other kind. - Theodore Roosevelt quote.
There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market.  One method is just as pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.
Gambling promises the poor what Property performs for the rich—something for nothing. - George Bernard Shaw quote.
Gambling promises the poor what Property performs for the rich—something for nothing.
In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. - Gloria Steinem quote.
In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

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

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Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. - Samuel Johnson quote.
Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
Nothing is sacred to a gamester.
Avoid gaming. It is the child of Avarice, the Brother of Iniquity, and father of Mischief. - George Washington quote.
Avoid gaming. It is the child of Avarice, the Brother of Iniquity, and father of Mischief.
Poker is a combination of luck and skill. People think mastering the skill part is hard, but they're wrong. The trick to poker is mastering the luck.

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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling.

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Death and dice level all distinction.

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