• "Gambling is a principle inherent in nature."
  
  -Edmund Burke, House of Commons speech (1780)

• "If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun."
  
  -Chico Marx

• "He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces."
  
  -Mark Twain

• "When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions.
  
  -Minnesota Fats

• "My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities."
  
  Jack Dreyfus of Dreyfus Mutual Fund

• "I have always wondered if the results of the Versailles Conferences would have been different if Woodrow Wilson had been a poker player."
  
  -Clyde Brion Davis Quoted in A. D. Livingston, Poker Strategy and Winning Play

• In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
  
  -Proverb

• "Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face."
  
  -VP Pappy

• "Look high, look low, and we see that gamblers actually form the majority of the world's inhabitants."
  
  -James Runciman, Side Lights (1893)

• "They gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if there's another one."
  
  -Richard Albert Canfield

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