GAMBLING QUOTES
"You cannot beat a online roulette table unless you steal money from it." - Albert Einstein.
"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.
"In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck. For every important place in life there are many men of fairly equal capacities. Among them luck decides who shall accomplish the great work, who shall be crowned with laurel, and who shall fall back into silence and obscurity." - William E. Woodward
"A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane." - George Augustus Sala (1828-95) English writer and journalist.
"I am sorry I have not learned to play Bingo cards. It is very useful in life. It generates kindness and consolidates society." - Samuel Johnson
"In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the keno lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there." - An anonymous casino boss
"Remember this: The house doesn't beat the online casino player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself." - Nicholas (Nick the Greek) Dandalos
"You know what luck is? Luck-is believing that 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
"Don’t gamble the rent money or you'll land up sleeping on the park bench." - Capt. Summer Fun, Ret.
"Blackjack is the only casino game an amateur can learn to play and at which he can definitely win." - Lawrence Revere, author, Playing Blackjack as a Business
"Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures." - Simon Noble, an Austrian-based internet bookmaker
"When we put 50 machines in, I consider them 50 more mousetraps. You have to have a mousetrap to catch a mouse." - Bob Stupak, former Las Vegas casino owner
"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
They were burying a high-roller in Las Vegas and a few of his online gambling cronies were gathered grave side when the minister said; "Gus is merely sleeping." His best friend was heard muttering: "I've got a hundred that says he's dead."
"At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, and a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowed-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the poker table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Gambler
"Online 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