Gambling Quotes
Everything in life is luck.
~Donald Trump
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
Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. "She got to go to heaven four days early."
~President Bill Clinton
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
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
~Chinese Proverb
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
~Charles Lamb
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
~R.E. Shay
Luck never gives; it only lends.
~Swedish Proverb
A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane.
~George Augustus Sala
I am sorry I have not learned to play cards. It is very useful in life. It generates kindness and consolidates society.
~Samuel Johnson
You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky...to hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe you're lucky.
~Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire
Blackjack is the only casino game an amateur can learn to play and at which he can definitely win.
~Lawrence Revere
Look high, look low, and we see that gamblers actually form the majority of the world's inhabitants.
~James Runciman
Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
~Yiddish Proverb
Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
~ Arab Proverb
Every dog has his day in luck.
~ Japanese Proverb
Go and wake up your luck.
~ Persian Proverb
When God throws the dice are loaded.
~Greek Proverb
No one is luckier than him who believes in his luck.
~German proverb
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
~Jean Cocteau