Gambling Maxims
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- Gambling
is a principle inherent in nature.
-Edmund Burke, House of Commons speech (1780)
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- 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
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- He
had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-Mark Twain
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- When
I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured
'em of all their daydreams and delusions.
-Minnesota Fats
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- 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
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- 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
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- In
a bet there is a fool and a thief.
-Proverb
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- 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
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- Look
high, look low, and we see that gamblers actually form
the majority of the world's inhabitants.
-James Runciman, Side Lights (1893)
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- They
gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if
there's another one.
-Richard Albert Canfield
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