More Gambling Quotes

Gambling has been around for centuries, and now with the advent of online gambling, its surprising but many of these quotes are still very applicable. Whether you play video poker online or prefer to sit and spit the slots for hours, I’m sure you’ll find some (or all) of these quotes to be quite interesting and/or useful. That’s all for now .. see you at the online casino of choice.

"I can’t tell you how thrilling the game is… If I had money to spare I
believe I should spend the whole year gambling and walking about the
magnificent halls of the casino."


-
Anton Chekhov
letter to his sister (1891)

"That specific disease in which the suspension of the whole nervous system
on a chance or risk becomes as necessary as the dram to the drunkard."

"I have seen a pregnant woman stand at a 21 game, oblivious to labor pains,
until we thought we were going to become midwives, and leave only when we
summoned an ambulance."

"To gamble is to risk, to approach the “ruin factor."


When I was poor the
ruin factor was not important. Hell, I was ruined anyway."

"The games became burning lights on the floor of my withdrawal, and later,
while I slept, there were poker chips falling through my dreams."

"Winning isn’t going to change your life. So don’t bet so much that you
can get hurt. If that’s what betting is all about for you, wear dog tags so
they know where to ship the body.

"It’s as important to make good folds in poker as it is to make good
bets… The biggest mistake weak players make is playing too many hands."

"The type of gambler that hangs around the tables holding on to his room
rent. Can’t bear to leave, but can’t lay it on the table either."

Las vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of
buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but
signs.

Vegas runs on juice. You sometimes hear someone say, “I’ve got more than
juice than Minute Maid."

That means he’s got friends.

People in the rest of the world merely go broke and die broke. In Vegas,
you live broke.

The only way to double your money in Las Vegas is to fold it in half and put
it back in your pocket.

It has nothing for export but its promise. Its growth was not only
conspicuous, conspicuous was the only medium of its growth.

When I walked into the Mirage Hotel’s race and Sport Book to begin a week of
all-out gambling and gazed at the giant television screens and electronic
displays on the wall, I wondered if I had died and gone to a horseplayer’s
heaven.

Some place in the richest nation in the world, there has to be a city with
no other excuse for being than money.

I entered the casino with such firm confidence, yet, at the same time, in a
state of such excitement as I had never experienced before.

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, still two rooms
away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into
convulsions.

He heard the free slots!

Under the influence of uncontrollable ecstasy the players gambled their
wives, their children and ultimately themselves into captivity.

It is quite certain that no two human beings can be anywhere without ere
long offering to “bet” upon something.

Gambling obsessed men and women, rich or poor. Rain drops running down a
window pane, the fertility of a dean’s wife, steeplechasing by moonlight,
anything and everything were grounds for a bet.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings, and risk it on one turn of
pitch-and-toss and lose and start again at your beginnings… Then you’re a
man, my son.

Once I lost ten blue chips to a player who bet me that the pale light we
happened to notice filtering through the curtains was dusk, not drawn.

I have set my life upon a cast, and I will stand the hazard of the die.

One time he was sick and wouldn’t take penicillin, because he bet his fever
would go to one hundred and four.

Let’s play for your mustache, Ergorov! That fluffy mustache of yours has
bothered me for a long time. if I win, I’ll cut off your mustache. Okay?

The game had been hurriedly arranged so, in lieu of chips, they used buttons
torn from their clothing.

I got into a game with the mayor of some small town nearby and I remember he
once asked me to jack the bet up and said if I didn’t, he was gonna have me
arrested for not gambling.

I hold you six to four that I love you with all my heart, if I would bet
with other people i’m sure I could get ten to one.

Duke Maximillian of Bavaria, playing billiards with his chamberlain
Barthels, lost $3,600,000 in a single afternoon and was deposed as a result.

I go to a party, I bet on the hors d’oeuvres.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would
fly first.

Kings themselves have been known to play off, at Primero, not only all the
money and jewels they could part with, but the very images in the churches.

One more play, Eddie. Everything I have on the red. I like red. It’s the
color of blood.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it.

When his palm gets hold of the dice, the rich man is (no better than) a
pauper in his company.

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal at cards.

Your money is as good as anybody else’s money, and it doesn’t come fairer
than that, or more democratic.

God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they
cannot be seen.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich - something for
nothing.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight
moral twinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions;
and betting naturally accompanies it.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business
known as gambling.

We all know the condition of life’s game. The Big Dealer sets a time limit
for each of us.