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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. (Quote by - Arthur S. Reber)

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people. (Quote by - W. C. Fields)

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table. (Quote by - Dean Martin)

In a bet there is a fool and a thief. (Quote by - Proverb)

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society. (Quote by - Gordon B. Hinkley)

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. (Quote by - From the movie The Color of Money)

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. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Horse racing is animated roulette. (Quote by - Roger Kahn)

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)

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. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)

Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives. (Quote by - Johann Georg von Zimmermann)

A race track is a place where windows clean people. (Quote by - Danny Thomas)

A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope. (Quote by - William Bolitho)

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. (Quote by - Jack Yelton)

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)

Luck never gives; it only lends. (Quote by - Swedish Proverb)

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)

It [gaming] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. (Quote by - George Washington)

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind. (Quote by - Steve Allen)

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

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