Gambling Quotes

It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.

~ Cara Bertoia

Sitting there, it is impossible to change your luck. But, you can always change the machine you are at!

~ James Hauenstein

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

~ José Saramago

All serious poker players try to minimize their tells, obviously. There are a couple ways to go about this. One is the robotic approch: where your face becomes a mask and your voice a monotone, at least while the hand is being played. . . . The other is the manic method, where you affect a whole bunch of tics, twitches, and expressions, and mix them up with a river of insane babble. The idea is to overwhelm your opponents with clues, so they can't sort out what's going on. This approach can be effective, but for normal people it's hard to pull off. (If you've spent part of your life in an institution, this method may come naturally.)

~ Dan Harrington

If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether!

~ Sheri Cobb South

Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

After all, as Franco would dictate, everyone was going to lose their money at some point. You may as well do so half drunk and at the mercy of a pretty smile.

~ Christopher Byford

Performing magic in the live show thrills me. Just get me a deck of cards and some attentive audience, and I have made my day and theirs too

~ Amit Kalantri

For a professional magician, a stack of playing cards is as good as a stack of money.

~ Amit Kalantri

A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards.

~ Amit Kalantri

Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.

~ Vann Chow

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

~ Harry Truman

The Strip was still lit by a million neon lights, though the crowds on the sidewalk had greatly decreased by this hour. Still, Bosch was awed by the spectacle of light. In every imaginable color and configuration, it was a megawatt funnel of enticement to greed that burned twenty-four hours a day. Bosch felt the same attraction that all the other grinders felt tug at them. Las Vegas was like one of the hookers on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Even happily married men at least glanced their way, if only for a second, just to get an idea what was out there, maybe give them something to think about. Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.

~ Michael Connelly

You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.

~ Amit Kalantri

Life in society is when everyone is there and no one is present. Life in society is when everyone obeys what no one wants. Writing is a way of escaping this impoverishment, a variation on solitude like love or gambling – a principle of insubordination, a virtue of childhood.

~ Christian Bobin

I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.

~ Nadia Scrieva

All the magicians have 52 mutual friends.

~ Amit Kalantri

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.

~ James Jones

I am a woman of very few layers, and most of them are selfish and mean. My parents tried to make me a good girl, but I just wasn’t having it.

~ Christina Harlin

So much of the theatrical can leave you with a yearning for the real. The real is suddenly and starkly there right at the city’s edge and extends for thousands of square miles of desert and mountain and canyon with which human beings can do almost nothing profitable other than to leave it be and just look at it.

~ Timothy O'grady

But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.

~ Timothy O'grady

I wonder what inspires gamblers. Is it the adventure or the love of laziness?

~ Paul Bamikole

Trusting fate is like gambling on an unknown outcome with unknown consequences.

~ Steven Redhead

He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great danger, and in the midst of his uneasy reflections he had a sudden breathless conviction that she made him feel old because he loved her. Then he felt a hatred of himself, gathering into one mighty heap all the fierce and bitter hatred he had cherished for others and pouring it out on himself.

~ Norbert Jacques

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure:two things most precious to the life of man.

~ Owen Feltham

Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!

~ Gary Goldstein

Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.

~ Debbie Tosun Kilday

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

~ Pete Hautman

When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.

~ Jennifer Ott

A true champion of love and sport wears it proudly in all aspects of life.

~ Jennifer Ott

He had a hint of a Southern drawl, as if he’d worked hard to hide it, but couldn’t quite rid himself of the last of it. It was rough and gravelly, and had the seductive warmth of sinking into strong arms in front of a cozy fire. To my surprise, a spark of that long-dead heat stirred in my belly. This wasn’t the sort of response a woman should have to finding a strange man in her barn.

~ Margaret Madigan

She was dangerous. I’d heard the rumors, that she had a history as a wild woman, that she’d been married to a gambler, maybe even been one herself, that her past was scandalous at best. But who was I to judge? My past was littered with scandal.

~ Margaret Madigan

I have plenty of time... if I am not wise... I could lose it like the games in which you gamble.

~ Deyth Banger

Quit while you’re ahead.All the best gamblers do.

~ Baltasar Gracián Y Morales

The USPS is the only place in the world where you will find a black guy, a white guy, and a hispanic guy playing Filipino poker! And we love it that way!

~ Rhoda D'ettore

I don’t see Number Four though—oh.” Number Four, wearing an unflattering chartreuse jacket, was sitting alone on the chewed-up grass, despondently licking his testicles. “Hmm, I don’t know, Bel . .

~ Paul Murray

Once an opportunist like Mickey, who took the argument when she jumped on some devastated wretch's machine and jackpotted that it was the cash-ino's money she was winning, Moon returned after her six month break with the view that the separation had somehow sweetened the honeypot. The sad reality, she quickly learned, was that she was not irreplaceable; as such, the Casino felt no compunction to welcome her back with multi-jackpots. Instead, it took her money everyday and did not once give her a jackpot so that she could say, Ah. They missed me. Instead, all she could keep saying was, Verr-y bed. Verr-y bed. Suck-ah all my money!

~ Hope Barrett

Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the odds of an event with a fixed probability increase or decrease depending on recent occurrences of the event is called the gambler's fallacy. For example, if Kerrich landed, say, 44 heads in the first 100 tosses, the coin would not develop a bias towards the tails in order to catch up! That's what is at the root of such ideas as her luck has run out and He is due. That does not happen. For what it's worth, a good streak doesn't jinx you, and a bad one, unfortunately , does not mean better luck is in store.

~ Leonard Mlodinow

The human mind has a tendency to observe unsystematic events and assign a pattern to the results. A habitual risk-taker reorganizes the stream of random events and retrospectively attributes the outcome of indiscriminate trials to their own gambling “strategies.” We often hear people say that they are lucky or unlucky, when in actuality they can claim no ownership in the occurrence of chaotic outcomes. A false sense of the existence of luck can cause people to discount the value of their actual effort, skill, and training.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster