Quotes About Gambling

Never play with the Devil if you are afraid to shake the dice because you will never throw a six.

If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough.

We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

Mortals simply aren't what they used to be, he said. A thousand years ago, you would have bartered your immortal soul for a crust of stale bread. Now I can't even get you to gamble at all, even for your freedom.

It is not God's will," Aaron quoted, "that Jews should wager on the Messiah as dicers will.

Casinos have no windows, no clocks. The masters of the games want their customers to forget the passage of time, to lay down just one more bet, and then one more.

Il y a de la folie à courir le hasard de devenir fou par vanité.

If he's bound to risk his life, then it's my job to see he gets the most return from his gambling.

están prohibidas. Hasta hace algunos años, cualquiera que hubiera perdido en una partida clandestina podía reclamar en el plazo de ocho días que le devolvieran lo perdido.

The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.

When you gamble for tiles, you are skillful. When you gamble for your belt buckle, you begin to hesitate; and when you gamble for gold, you get confused. Your skill is the same, but you get cautious because you value something outside yourself. When you do this you become awkward inside." Lieh Tzu, Chapter 2

I had, of course, witnessed hundreds of people in a casino before, mindlessly dropping coins into slot machines. They don't play for money in America. It's true. The big payout is incidental to most gamblers. It's the numbness they're after. Not so in China. No one had that look of glazed stupor often found in American casinos.

All life is 6 to 5 against.

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Forgive me, for those of you who play the lottery — but economists, at least among themselves, refer to the lottery as a stupidity tax, because the odds of getting any payoff by investing your money in a lottery ticket are approximately equivalent to flushing the money directly down the toilet.

Ace-king is a fine hand. Ace-queen is a little weaker, but still good. With ace-jack, you're already sliding rapidly down a slippery slope. With ace-ten, you've slid down the slope, fallen off the cliff, and lie in wreckage at the bottom with hands like ace-five and ace-six.

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

It was every day on the horses and every single race. I was betting on anything; horses, dogs, virtual racing, roulette.

How isolating that must be, she thought. But we all seek solace somewhere. Some in friendships and family and beliefs. Some in drugs, in a bottle, in food or gambling or good deeds. And some in casual sex. It masqueraded as human contact, but was closer to loathing than liking. And certainly wasn't love. On