Casino Gambling Quotes
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- Guessing
has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.
-Dr. G
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- No
wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady
winner.
-Lord Dewar
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- 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
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- Italians
come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling,
and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
-Pope John XXIII
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- With
the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured
God was testing his faith.
-Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas
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