Gambling Quotes

  • A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope. ~William Bolitho
  • A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time. ~Author Unknown
  • At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
  • By gaming we lose both our time and treasure – two things most precious to the life of man. ~Owen Felltham
  • Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money. ~ Author Unknown
  • Gamblers do not contribute to the public welfare. ~ Hebrew Proverb
  • Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. ~ French Proverb
  • Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing. ~ George Bernard Shaw
  • Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something. ~ Wilson Mizner
  • He who can persuade someone not to gamble has earned money for him. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn’t come in until half-past five. ~Henny Youngman
  • I can’t believe that God plays dice with the universe. ~ Albert Einstein
  • If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
  • In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Traditional Proverb
  • In most betting shops you will see three windows marked “Bet Here,” but only one window with the legend “Pay Out.” ~Jeffrey Bernard
  • Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~Author Unknown
  • Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
  • Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
  • No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. ~Bud Flanagan
  • No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. ~Thomas Robert Dewar
  • No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner. ~ Thomas Robert Dewar
  • Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse. ~ American Proverb
  • One hundred alcoholics are better than one gambler. ~ Tunisian Proverb
  • One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. ~Dan Bennett
  • Rich gamblers and old trumpeters are rare. ~ German Proverb
  • Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • The better the gambler, the worse the man. ~Publius Syrus
  • The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling. ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • The house doesn’t beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself. ~Nick Dandalos
  • The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life. ~ Author Unknown
  • The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Kin Hubbard
  • The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. ~Heywood Broun
  • There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing. ~ French Proverb
  • There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. ~Jack Yelton
  • There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away. ~Author Unknown
  • There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
  • There is no lock on the purse of a gambler. ~ French Proverb
  • You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. ~Albert Einstein
  • You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. ~Will Rogers
  • Young gamblers, old beggars. ~ German Proverb
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