Gambling Citations - Online Gambling Citations

• "I am sorry I have not learned to play cards. It is very useful in life. It generates kindness and consolidates society."
  Samuel Johnson 
  
  
• "A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way."
  Mark Twain 
  
   
• "In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck. For every important place in life there are many men of fairly equal capacities. Among them luck decides who shall accomplish the great work, who shall be crowned with laurel, and who shall fall back into silence and obscurity."
  William E. Woodward
  
  
• "You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky...to hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe you're lucky."
  Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire 
  
  
• Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster.
  Yugoslav proverb 
  
  
• "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."
  R. E. Shay 
  
  
• "A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane."
  George Augustus Sala (1828-95) English writer and journalist 
  
  
• "Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something."
  Wilson Mizner 
  
  
• "In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the keno lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there."
  An anonymous casino boss 
  
  
• "The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours."
  Arthur S. Reber, The New Gambler 's Bible
  
  
• "Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself."
  Nicholas (Nick the Greek) Dandalos 
  
  
• When we put 50 machines in, I consider them 50 more mousetraps. You have to have a mousetrap to catch a mouse."
  Bob Stupak, former Las Vegas casino owner 
  
• Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. "She got to go to heaven four days early."
  President Bill Clinton 
  
  
• "A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax…laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize."
  Thomas Jefferson 
  
  
• "You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
  Albert Einstein