Gambling Quotes - Page 3

• This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.

  Paul Auster

  Insanity, Risk, Tables

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• Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Travel, Air

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

  Henry Fielding

  Luxury, Temptation, Vices

  Henry Fielding (1988). “An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers and Related Writings”, p.92, Wesleyan University Press

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• Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

  John Dewey

  Money, Stupid, Good Luck

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.210, SIU Press

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• Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Modesty, Dignity, Forget

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• It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Real, Smart, Winning

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• With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Typical, Clubs

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.42

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• A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Money, Real, Sunset

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• If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Evil, Desire

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.149

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• I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

  Henny Youngman

  Horse, Past, Half

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

  John Hay

  Money, Home, Luck

  Distichs no. 15 (1890)

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• The lucky person passes for a genius.

  Euripides

  Lucky, Genius, Literature

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• Never give a sucker an even break.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Break Even

  Quoted in Boston Daily Globe, 9 Sept. 1923.

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• In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

  Steven Wright

  Men, Las Vegas, Numbers

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• Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

  Euripides

  Luck, Genius, World

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Spiders, Fool

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.123

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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

  Taken, Losing, Given

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• Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

  Orson Welles

  Good Luck, People, Justice

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• If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

  Paul Newman

  Games, Looks, Tables

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• Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

  William Cobbett

  Names, Evil, Desire

  "Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life (Letter 2)". Book by William Cobbett, 1829.

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• Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

  John Warren Kindt

  Years, Machines, Crime

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• The only difference between a winner and a loser is a winner plays until he wins

  Big K.R.I.T.

  Rap, Winning, Play

  FaceBook post by Big K.R.I.T. from Jun 15, 2014

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• A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

  Artie Lange

  Christian, Drinking, Weekend

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• Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

  Esther Williams

  Husband, Drinking, Faster

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• By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Two, Treasure

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