Quotes about Gambling, Luck and Money – 200+ Gambling Quotes

Quotes about Gambling

  • “Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.” —Dean Inge
  • “Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.” —Edmund Burke
  • “Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.” —Wilson Mizner
  • “At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.” —Thomas Hughes
  • “Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.” —Eric Schneiderman
  • “Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal at cards.” —Nikolai Gogol
  • “Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.” —Rita Mae Brown
  • “At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” —Ian Fleming
  • “In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.” —Ambrose Bierce
  • “The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away.” —John Warren Kindt
  • “I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.” —Fran Lebowitz
  • “Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers. Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints.” —Toba Beta
  • “By gaming we lose both our time and treasure: two things most precious to the life of man.” —Owen Feltham
  • “A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.” —Leo Tolstoy
  • “The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.” —John Scarne
  • “Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.” —Hunter S. Thompson
  • “Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.” —Henry Ward Beecher
  • “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
  • “If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “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 has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.” —Peter L Bernstein
  • “Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.” —Hunter S. Thompson
  • “True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.” —John Milton Hay
  • “You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling.” —John Warren Kindt
  • “I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it’s meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.” —Michael Jordan
  • “Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.” —Mario Puzo
  • “Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one’s flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.” —Rebecca West
  • “Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.” —Jeanette Winterson
  • “All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.” —Rebecca West

Quotes about Gambling, Luck and Money

  • “Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.” —Rita Mae Brown
  • “At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” —Ian Fleming
  • “True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.” —John Milton Hay
  • “A man’s gotta make at least one bet a day else he could be walking around lucky and never know it.” —Jim Jones
  • “Horse racing is animated roulette.” —Roger Kahn
  • “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” —Seneca
  • “Every dog has his day in luck.” —Japanese Proverb
  • “Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster.” —Yugoslav Proverb
  • “Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.” —Wilson Mizner
  • “Gambling is a way of buying hope on credit.” —Alan Wykes
  • “You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky
  • “Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.” —Unknown Author
  • “Eat your betting money but don’t bet your eating money.” —Horseracing Proverb
  • “Quit while you’re ahead. All the best gamblers do.” —Baltasar Gracián y Morales
  • “The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.” —Bret Harte
  • “A race track is a place where windows clean people.” —Danny Thomas
  • “Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.” —Unknown Author
  • “The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.” —English Proverb
  • “Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.” —French Proverb
  • “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.” —Unknown Author
  • “Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.” —German Proverb
  • “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
  • “A gambler plays even when the odds are immutable and against him.” —Roger “Lou Krieger” Lubin
  • “The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.” —Ambrose Bierce
  • “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures.” —Simon Noble
  • “One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.” —Dan Bennett
  • “I love blackjack. But I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.” —Mitch Hedberg
  • “By gaming we lose both our time and treasure: two things most precious to the life of man.” —Owen Feltham
  • “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” —Thomas Jefferson
  • “The only man who makes money following the races is the one who does it with a broom and shovel.” —Elbert Hubbard
  • “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” —Kin Hubbard
  • “A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.”—Paul Newman [Quote from the movie, “The Color of Money”]
  • “The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.” —Julius Weintraub, a.k.a. “Big Julie”
  • “Remember this: The house doesn’t beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.” —Nicholas Dandolos, a.k.a. “Nick the Greek”
  • “If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “My advice to the unborn is, don’t be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.” —Jack Dreyfus
  • “Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.” —Samantha Bee
  • “Show me a wealthy gambler and I’ll show you someone who has made his money from something other than gambling.” —Terrence Murphy, a.k.a. “VP Pappy”
  • “One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.” —Danny McGoorty
  • “True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.” —John Milton Hay
  • “The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “When I was young, people called me a gambler. As the scale of my operations increased I became known as a speculator. Now I am called a banker. But I have been doing the same thing all the time.” —Sir Ernest Cassel
  • “In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all… — Robert De Niro [Quote from the movie, “Casino”]

Funny Quotes about Gambling

  • “Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster.” —Yugoslav Proverb
  • “The greatest risk is not taking one.” —Tim Fargo
  • “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity..” —Seneca
  • “The better the gambler, the worse the man.” —Publius Syrus
  • “Eat your betting money but don’t bet your eating money.” —Unknown
  • “Gambling is a way of buying hope on credit.” —Alan Wykes
  • “Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun.” —Lady Gaga
  • “You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky
  • “If there weren’t luck involved, I would win every time.” —Phil Hellmuth
  • “I can never gain something without losing everything I had.” —Nadia Scrieva
  • “Poker is a hard way to make an easy living.” —Doyle Brunson
  • “I can’t believe that God plays dice with the universe.” —Albert Einstein
  • “At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.” —Unknown Author
  • “The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.” —Wilson Mizner
  • “Quit while you’re ahead. All the best gamblers do.” —Baltasar Gracián y Morales
  • “Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.” ―Unknown Author
  • “Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal at cards.” —Nikolai Gogol
  • “To be a poker champion, you must have a strong bladder.” —Jack McClelland
  • “A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.” —Paul Newman
  • “The less you bet, the more you lose when you win.” —Bob Nastanovich
  • “Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.” —French Proverb
  • “The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.” —English Proverb
  • “You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.” —Albert Einstein
  • “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.”— French Proverb
  • “Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.” ―Rita-Mae Brown
  • “You don’t gamble to win.You gamble so you can gamble the next day.” —Bert Ambrose
  • “At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” —Ian Fleming
  • “Gambling has brought our family together. We had to move to a smaller house.” —Tommy Cooper
  • “No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.” —Bud Flanagan
  • “A gambler never makes the same mistake twice. It’s usually three or more times.” —Terry Murphy
  • “A gambler plays even when the odds are immutable and against him.” —Roger “Lou Krieger” Lubin
  • “I wonder what inspires gamblers. Is it the adventure or the love of laziness?” ―Paul Bamikole
  • “In gambling, the many must lose in order that the few may win.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “The house doesn’t beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.” —Nick Dandalos
  • “A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.” —Artie Lange
  • “The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.” —Ambrose Bierce
  • “Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures.” —Simon Noble
  • “In order to be a successful gambler you have to have a complete disregard for money.” —Doyle Brunson
  • “The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.” —Julius Weintraub.
  • “One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.” —Dan Bennett
  • “Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers. Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints.” —Toba Beta
  • “I like to play blackjack. I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.” —Mitch Hedberg
  • “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” —Kin Hubbard
  • “Sitting there, it is impossible to change your luck. But, you can always change the machine you are at.” —James Hauenstein
  • “Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who say he is, is either a liar or doesn’t play poker.” —Alfred Alvarez
  • “A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.” —Leo Tolstoy
  • “If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.” —Mike McDermott
  • “The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.” —Frank Scoblete
  • “The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.” —Heywood Hale Broun
  • “The only man who makes money following the races is the one who does it with a broom and shovel.” —Elbert Hubbard
  • “I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That’s how I lost my mind.” —Steve Allen
  • “I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” —Thomas Jefferson
  • “Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.” —Samantha Bee
  • “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
  • “There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.” —Jack Yelton
  • “A man’s gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it.” —Jimmy Jones
  • “Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.” —Henry Ward Beecher
  • “Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks – It says, Goodbye.” —Frank Sinatra in “The Joker Is Wild”
  • “My advice to the unborn is, don’t be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.” —Jack Dreyfus
  • “In most betting shops you will see three windows marked “Bet Here”, but only one window with the legend “Pay Out”.” —Jeffrey Bernard
  • “If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “Poker is a lot like sex, everyone thinks they are the best, but most don’t have a clue what they are doing.” —Dutch Boyd
  • “If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I’d probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.” —Michael Ventura
  • “One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.” —Danny McGoorty
  • “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
  • “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.”— Terrence “VP Pappy” Murphy
  • “Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I’ve been winning fortunes, and I’ve been losing them.” —Jerry Lewis
  • “Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.” —John Dewey
  • “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
  • “True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.” —John Milton Hay
  • “If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.” —Chico Marx
  • “The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion.” —Stephen Hawking
  • “I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it’s meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.” —Michael Jordan
  • “To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is never facing the facts.” —Ruth Gordon
  • “Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then takes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.” —Mark Twain
  • “Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, and you lose. You play.” —Jeanette Winterson
  • “In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.” —Robert De Niro in “Casino”
  • “When I was young, people called me a gambler. As the scale of my operations increased I became known as a speculator. Now I am called a banker. But I have been doing the same thing all the time.” —Sir Ernest Cassel
  • “Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.” —Gloria Steinem

Quotes about Gambling And Love

  • “Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.” —Wilson Mizner
  • “Women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.” —Gloria Steinem
  • “No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.” —Ralph Nader
  • “At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” —Ian Fleming
  • “No wife can endure a gambling husband-unless he is a steady winner.” —Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
  • “A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.” —Artie Lange
  • “The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.” —Ambrose Bierce
  • “I love blackjack. But I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi circle.” —Mitch Hedberg
  • “Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.” —Charles Lamb
  • “The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” —Kin Hubbard
  • “We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.” —Donald L. Carcieri
  • “The President must stop gambling with taxpayers’ money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.” —Tom Harkin
  • “Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.” —John Shadegg
  • “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.” —Damon Runyon
  • “The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.” —Heywood Hale Broun
  • “Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.” —Pope John XXIII
  • “Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That’s why they call it gambling, and that’s why they keep flipping over the cards.” —Richard Roeper
  • “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 with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.” —Henry Ward Beecher
  • “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
  • “Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.” —Will Rogers
  • “… a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.” —Robert Kiyosaki
  • “Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.” — Mark Twain
  • “I didn’t want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling – more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.” —Omar Sharif
  • “Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.” —Gloria Steinem

Famous Quotes about Online Gambling

  • “Bad bets sometimes pay off.” —Marty Rubin
  • “Luck never gives; it only lends.” —Swedish Proverb
  • “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” —Seneca
  • “Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.” —Edmund Burke
  • “Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.” —Wilson Mizner
  • “If there weren’t luck involved, I would win every time.” —Phil Hellmuth
  • “Eat your betting money but don’t bet your eating money.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “The less you bet, the more you lose when you win.” —Bob Nastanovich
  • “Quit while you’re ahead. All the best gamblers do.” —Baltasar Gracián y Morales
  • “The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.” —Bret Harte
  • “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” —Cormac McCarthy
  • “You don’t gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.” —Bert Ambrose
  • “A gambler plays even when the odds are immutable and against him.” —Roger “Lou Krieger” Lubin
  • “Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.” —George Washington
  • “A gambler never makes the same mistake twice. It’s usually three or more times.” —Terrence “VP Pappy” Murphy
  • “By gaming, we lose both our time and treasure – two things most precious to the life of man.” —Owen Feltham
  • “A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.” —Paul Newman [Quote from the movie, “The Color of Money”]
  • “While gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” —Ian Fleming [Quote from the book Casino Royale]
  • “If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.” —Peter L Bernstein
  • “I’ve learned the lesson that the worst thing that can happen to a gambler is to let his recent losses or wins knock him off keel emotionally.” —Andrew Beyer
  • “There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having fun and being smart.” —Hunter S. Thompson
  • “I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it’s meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.” —Michael Jordan
  • “Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.” —Jeanette Winterson