Gambling Quotes

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.

~ Charles Bukowski

The greatest risk is not taking any.

~ Tim Fargo

The greatest risk is not taking one.

~ Tim Fargo

If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold.

~ Anna Freeman

When you are gambling, though you probably do not know it, your mind is on the tide, the ebb and flow of the Universe, and there is no way to fight it. Going with the flow is the only option, so there is no point in struggling against it, but, it will tell you how you sit with God, or the Universe, at that particular time in your life.

~ Robert Black

The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of gambling at baccarat and had only been saved by this restaurant, which he seemed to cherish as if it were his wife or a good fountain pen.

~ Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

~ Ambrose Bierce

The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.

~ Eric Schneiderman

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

~ Pope John Xxiii

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

~ George Raft

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

~ Georges Pompidou

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

~ George Raft

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

~ Leland Ryken

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

~ Wilson Mizner

There is no gambling like politics.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

~ Eugene Kennedy

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

~ James Weldon Johnson

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

~ Tom Harkin

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

~ Michael Jordan