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
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win. ~George Bernard Shaw
The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away. ~John Warren Kindt
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
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
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. ~Fran Lebowitz
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
At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~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
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck. ~Rita Mae Brown
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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal at cards. ~Nikolai Gogol
At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. ~Ian Fleming
The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men. ~John Scarne
Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men. ~Thomas Hughes
Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained. ~Eric Schneiderman
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. ~Ambrose Bierce
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
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
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. ~Leo Tolstoy
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
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 an act of faith of gamblers. Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints. ~Toba Beta
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ~Dean Inge
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
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 a principle inherent in human nature. ~Edmund Burke
By gaming we lose both our time and treasure: two things most precious to the life of man. ~Owen Feltham
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. ~Wilson Mizner
