Gambling Quotes and Sayings

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.

The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.

Never tell me the odds.

To be a successful gambler you have to have a complete disregard for money.

Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.

Don’t gamble the rent money or you’ll land up sleeping on the park bench.

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That’s how I lost my mind.

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

The best part about poker is there’s no down side.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

I can’t believe that God plays dice with the universe.

The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Most of the money you’ll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.

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

When in doubt, win the trick.

When your opponent’s sittin’ there holdin’ all the aces, there’s only one thing to do: kick over the table.

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

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

Good luck needs no explanation

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

Good luck has its storms.

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

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.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

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

Luck never gives; it only lends.

Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn’t play poker.

Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster.

A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane.