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"Gambling itself will only end when human nature has changed completely and there are no more bets to win." - Harold S. Smith Sr., I Want to Quit Winners
"The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play." - Henry Tamburin
"They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly." - Frank Scoblete
"One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds." - Dan Bennett
"A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned." - Paul Newman, The Color of Money
"My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: "It can't be done." - John Scarne
"When a gambler picks up a pack of cards or a pair of dice, he feels as though he has reduced an unmanageable world to a finite, visible and comprehensive size." - Annabel Davis-Goff, The Literary Companion to Gambling
"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." - VP Pappy
"Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler (1867)
"A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists' judge religion, by its excesses." - Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1832)
"Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy." - Dr. G
"No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner." - Lord Dewar
Something to moan out between grinding teeth after this political season. "Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of 'em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?" - Jack Norris
"Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one." - Pope John XXIII
"With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith." - Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas
"The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble." - Michael Ondaatje, Running the Family
"Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom." - VP Pappy (A crusty old sage that still roams the Green Felt Jungles in Detroit)
"The racetrack is a place where windows clean people." - VP Pappy
"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?" - Stanislaw J. Lec
"The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be." - Mark Pilarski
"Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind." - Thomas Jefferson. Accordingly, he kept meticulous records of his backgammon and card winnings.
"I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe." - Andrew Jackson after winning a horse race.
"I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas." - Rick Majerus, Utah Utes college basketball coach
A problem gambler was urged by a counselor to take the 20-question test for compulsive gambling. Upon completing it, the subject commented; "Boy, Gamblers Anonymous must be hard up for new members. They make qualifying so easy."
A Smith & Wesson beats four aces. - American Proverb
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket." - Kin Hubbard
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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