88 Gambling Quotes and Proverbs Plus a Few Gambling Statistics

By Charles L Harmon

For anyone gambling luck is the goal of everyone, that is Good Luck. As a result there are lots of gambling related quotes. Here are eighty-eight gambling quotes. Both men and women gamble. But who gambles the most? Scroll down to see the answer.

 

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

~ By Tom Stoppard

No woman can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.

~ By Thomas Dewar

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

~ John Ray

Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.

~ R.E. Shay

“Luck’s always to blame.”

~ Jean de la Fontaine

“Be ready when opportunity comes…Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.”

~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau

“Fortune favours the bold.”

~ Terence 190-159 BC.

“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.”

~ Grantland Rice

Luck never gives; it only lends.

~ Swedish Proverb

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

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

~ Author Unknown

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.

~ Will Rogers

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.

~ Bud Flanagan

Horse racing is animated roulette.

~ Roger Kahn

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

A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time.

~ Author Unknown

The better the gambler, the worse the man.

~ Publilius Syrus

A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses.

~ Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1832

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.

~ Author Unknown

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.

~ Author Unknown

Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due.

~ Richard Blackmore, The Jockey Club and its Founders, 1891

Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people.

~ W.C. Fields

From Visually.

The house doesn’t beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.

~ Nick Dandalos

Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money.

~ Author Unknown

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

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety and nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way.

~ Mark Twain (at Bayreuth)

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

“Everything’s a gamble, love most of all.”

~ Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“It’s hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you’re on a losing one.”

~ Cara Bertoia, Cruise Quarters – a Novel About Casinos and Cruise Ships

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

~ Ambrose Bierce

“There is a lure in power. It can get into a man’s blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.”

~ Harry Truman

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

~ Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers.
Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints.”

~ Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“God does not play dice, bankers do.”

~ Greg Curtis

“Bad bets sometimes pay off.”

~ Marty Rubin

“I don’t gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.”

~ Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road

“Systems don’t work. They don’t work at the roulette table and they don’t work in life.”

~ Marty Rubin

“I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.”

~ Nadia Scrieva, Fathoms of Forgiveness

“I wonder what inspires gamblers. Is it the adventure or the love of laziness?”

~ Paul Bamikole

“Love is like gamble. From the start you know you’ll loose everything you have.”

~ Arzum Uzun, A?k?n 8 Kusuru

“Trusting fate is like gambling on an unknown outcome with unknown consequences.”

~ Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game

“Quit while you’re ahead.
All the best gamblers do.”

~ Baltasar Gracián Y Morales

“If you gamble long enough, you’ll always lose — the gambler is always ruined.”

~ Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“… there is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author and the cons of the casino.”

~ John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder – A ride through the boom town

“It felt wrong for me to push Lady Luck to the side and for me to choose who ought to be ‘lucky’. It didn’t seem right. It wasn’t fair.”

~ John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder – A ride through the boom town

“Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.”

~ Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s Schooldays

They were burying a high-roller in Las Vegas and a few of his gambling cronies were gathered grave side when the minister said; “Gus is merely sleeping.” His best friend was heard muttering: “I’ve got a hundred that says he’s dead.”

~ Author unknown

“Stop cheating!” the dealer told the card player. “I’m not!” claimed the player. “You must be,” said the dealer. “That is not the hand that I dealt you.”

~ Author unknown

“Suckers have no business with money anyway.”

~ Canada Bill Jones, Legendary Three-card Monte Dealer

I hope to break even this week. I need the money.

~ Veteran Las Vegas Player

The Wampanoag Tribe has a machine, and they say, “It’s completely idiot proof.” I told them they’ve got it all wrong. I want a machine that is “idiot friendly.”

~ Former Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld

“Why otherwise would that dignified fellow dressed like a banker be sitting at a machine murmuring;

~ Author unknown

“Gambling is a principle inherent in nature.”

~ Edmund Burke, House of Commons speech (1780)

“Talk to me baby, I know you understand my needs.”

~ Roger Fleming

“He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.”

~ Mark Twain

“Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.”

~ VP Pappy

“It can be argued that man’s instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.”

~ Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas

“Look high, look low, and we see that gamblers actually form the majority of the world’s inhabitants.”

~ James Runciman, Side Lights (1893)

“I’ve learned the lesson that the worst thing that can happen to a gambler is to let his recent losses or wins knock him off keel emotionally.”

~ Andrew Beyer

“They (slot machines) sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.”

~ Frank Scoblete

“Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.”

~ Timothy L. O’Brien, Bad Bet (1998)

“Gambling itself will only end when human nature has changed completely and there are no more bets to win.”

~ Harold S. Smith Sr., I Want to Quit Winners

“A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.”

~ Paul Newman, The Color of Money

“They gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if there’s another one.”

~ Richard Albert

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

~ From the movie The Color of Money

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

For most men (till by losing rendered sager)
Will back their own opinions by a wager.

~ George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Beppo”

A pack of cards is the devil’s prayer-book.

~ German Proverb

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.

~ Wilson Mizner

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, Gambling in Islam, 1975

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.

~ Hugh E. Keough

In a bet there is a fool and a thief.

~ Proverb

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

~ Kin Hubbard

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 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, The New Gambler’s Bible

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

~ Heywood Broun

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

~ Chinese Proverb

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.

~ Jack Yelton

A permanent and intense interest is acquirable in baccarat, or in any other game, but you have to buy it. You don’t get it by standing around and looking on….

~ Mark Twain, “Aix, the Paradise of the Rheumatics”

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

~ Jeffrey Bernard

A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.

~ William Bolitho

I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.

~ Joe E. Lewis

In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there.

~ Author Unknown

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

~ Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1823

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