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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