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Gambling Quotes

Everyone has their opinions and thoughts on gambling. Some of it is wise and some of it, well … We gathered together some gambling quotes of famous people - entertainers,

philosophers, world leaders and more. We hope you find a little wisdom in this collection of thoughts to help you at the craps table or wherever you play.

”Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”
From the movie The Color of Money

“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, Gambling in Islam, 1975

“In a bet there is a fool and a thief.”
Proverb

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

“The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours.”
Arthur S. Reber, The New Gambler's Bible

“Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.”
Mark Twain

“You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.”
Albert Einstein

“A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.”
Mark Twain

“Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people.”
W.C. Fields

“Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones. Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.”
Lord Byron

“Iacta alea est. - The die is cast.”
Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon

“The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.”
Advice from an old English proverb

“The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily.”
Sophocles

“I cannot believe God plays dice with the universe.”
Albert Einstein

“Not only does God play dice, He throws them where we cannot see them.”
Steven Hawkings

“Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.”
John Ford

“We figured the odds as best we could, and then we rolled the dice.”
Jimmy Carter

“Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.”
Friedrich Nietsche

“I'm the lone crap shooter
Playing the field every night
Baby can't stay
You got to roll me
And call me the tumbling dice
Roll me and call me the tumbling dice”
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - 'Tumbling Dice'