Gambling Quotes - Page 5

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.

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.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

The only difference between a winner and a loser is character.

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.

It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

We never talk about gambling around my house.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota

I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.

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

Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races she never asks any questions, if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog.

Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.

No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

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

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