Quotes about Gambling

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.

They kept playing until Gervaso had won more than five thousand dollars and quit because he was drawing too much attention.

The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.