Gambling Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.
Wilson Mizner
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil.
Heywood Broun
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
Paul Newman (The Color of Money – The movie)
The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man’s natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future.
Franz Rosenthal (Gambling in Islam, 1975)
At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.
Chinese Proverb
Gambling is pretty much like liquor; you can make it illegal but you can’t make it unpopular.
Anonymous
Gambling is a way of buying hope on credit.
Alan Wykes
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.
VP Pappy
A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.
William Bolitho
The better the gambler, the worse the man.
Publius Syrus
No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
Thomas Robert Dewar
I don’t gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn’t give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
Alex Trebek
Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.
Gordon B. Hinkley
By gaming we lose both our time and treasure – two things most precious to the life of man.
Owen Felltham
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
French Proverb
Don’t be a gambler; once a gambler, always a gambler.
John W Gates
Gambling is not about how well you play the games, it’s really about how well you handle your money.
VP Pappy
Gambling is just plain stealing by mutual consent.
Anonymous
Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
French Proverb
Gambling is a principle inherent in nature.
Edmund Burke
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
Gambling itself will only end when human nature has changed completely and there are no more bets to win.
Harold S. Smith Sr.
Gambling is risk-taking. It might be said the owner of a casino gambles, takes risks, but he has the odds in his favour, so that’s intelligent gambling. If I wanted to gamble, I’d buy the casino.
Jean Paul Getty, Sr.
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
George Bernard Shaw
You don’t gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.
Bert Ambrose
Gambling is a way of throwing money down the toilet without people calling you insane.
Anonymous
Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.
VP Pappy
The safest bet is the one you didn’t make.
Anonymous
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich—something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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