Gambling Quotes - Pearls of Wisdom

Gambling and memorable gambling quotes, both funny and serious, have been with mankind since time began. Here are a few of my favorites along with their sources;

It's hard to walk away from a winning streak and even harder to leave the table when you are on a losing one."
Cara Bertola, author,
'Cruise Quarters -- A Novel About Casinos and Cruise Ships.'

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor on the business known as gambling"
Ambrose Bierce.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown."
Honore de Balzac,
'The Wild Ass's Skin.'

The man drinks the first drink, the drink drinks the second drink, then the drink drinks the man."
Ancient Chinese Proverb.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do"
Harry S. Truman.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out"
Ian Fleming,
'Casino Royale.'

The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School,' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not"
Ian Fleming,
'Diamonds Are Forever.'

Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers"
Toba Beta,
'My Ancestor Was An Ancient Astronaut.'

Whatever you do, don't let those other caddies talk you into pitching quarters: My mother warning my two younger brothers and I to beware when we left for the country club to earn some money."

Every gambler needs to hit that one morning, day or night, when everything goes right and you will talk about that run until the day you die"
Robert Black,
'Blackjack, Me and She.'

When you are gambling although you probably don't 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 where you sit with God or the universe at that particular time in your life"
Robert Black.

I am a woman of very few layers, and most of them are selfish and mean. My parents tried to make me into a good girl, but I was having none of it"
Christina Harlin,
'Deck of Cards.'

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, a woman's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage"
Gloria Steinem.

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games. We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not"
Mark Duffy.

Last year, people won more than $1 billion playing poker. Casinos made $27 billion just by being around those people"
Samantha Bee.

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.

Lottery -- a tax on people who are bad at math."
Author Unknown.

No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner"
Thomas Robert Dewar.

If you aren't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough"
Author Unknown.

A race track is a place where windows clean people"
Danny Thomas.

And finally, this quote from Richard Sasuly: "Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse."