Gambling Quotes - Page 6

• Suckers have no business with money anyway.

  Canada Bill Jones

  Sucker

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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Men, Doors

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• Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.

  William J. Clinton

  Mother, Weekend, Vegas

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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

  Funny, Money, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Men, Doors

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• If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

  Mark Van Doren

  Looks, Tables, Sucker

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• If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

  Michael Ventura

  Drinking, Roulette, Tables

  Michael Ventura (1993). “Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment”, Spring Pubns

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• I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

  Rick Majerus

  Vegas, Casinos, Buffets

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• The best bet you get is an even break.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Casinos, Break

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• The champion makes his own luck.

  Earl Blaik

  Champion, Luck, Casinos

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• A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Risk, Tickets, Injury

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.440

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• It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.

  William Weld

  Friendly, Machines, Want

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• An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Clouds, Envy, Justice

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• We never talk about gambling around my house.

  Doyle Brunson

  House

  "Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Tells His Story (Part 2)". Interview with Nolan Dalla, www.pokerschoolonline.com. 2008.

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• If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Happiness, Men, Ireland And The Irish

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• The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Suicide, Loss, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.108

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• I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.

  Amarillo Slim

  Champion, Looks, Sucker

  Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• God does not play dice [with the universe].
  [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

  Albert Einstein

  God, Play, Creation Of The Universe

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• Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more
  Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart;
  Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

  George Herbert

  Sports, Heart, Play

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.102

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• Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Names, Excess

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.125

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• If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophy, Men, Lucky Day

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• I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Kindness, Play

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 21 November 1773

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Wise, Men, Games

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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