Gambling Quotations

Craps is very visual, but it’s complicated, it’s about how you simplify it without bastardizing it.
Jack Webb, American Actor

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.
James Woods, American Actor

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.
Dean Martin, American Actor

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
Will Rogers, American Actor

Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature.
David A Daniel, American Poet

Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.
Lucian Freud, British Painter

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich - something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright

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

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
Leo Tolstoy

Gambling is neither an immoral nor a noble exercise; it is motivated by both foolish and rational considerations.
Alex Rubner, author of “Fringe Benefits: The Golden Chains” 1962

Man is not a born gambler but, from his experiences in life, he acquires a fascination for the elements of chance.
J Philip Jones, European Author

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.
Frank Scoblete, American Author

A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
Artie Lange, Comedian

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright, Comedian

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

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures.
Simon Noble

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.
Jack Dreyfus

No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
Lord Thomas Robert Dewar, Distiller

As far as Poker goes, I really didn’t play Poker but a few times in high school.
Doyle Brunson, Professional Poker Player and Online Casino Owner

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, American Author and Screenwriter

You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky...to hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe you're lucky.
Stanley Kowalski from "A Streetcar Named Desire"

Memo to myself: Give up gambling. It's wrong... especially if you lose money.
Cruella de Vil from "101 Dalmations"

Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography.
Mario Puzo, American Author and Screenwriter

I think of how many thousands of times I've played a slot machine with nothing to show for it
Barry Meadow

Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker.
Amarillo Slim, Professional Gambler

Show me a wealthy gambler and I'll show you someone who has made his money from something other than gambling.
VP Pappy

The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
Nick Dandalos

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

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

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
Grantland Rice, Sports Journalist

We’re encouraged to believe it’s okay for the Lottery to rob us blind because so much of the money is going to good causes.
Derek McGovern, Sports Journalist

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin, American Politician and Inventor

Gambling is a principle inherent in nature.
Edmund Burke, Irish Politician and Statesman

I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, former US President

There is no gambling like politics.
Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minster

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.
Chinese Proverb

A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
American Proverb

Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
French Proverb

When God throws the dice are loaded.
Greek Proverb