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Gambling Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs
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[ Gambling Proverbs ]
"The best bet you get is an even break." -Franklin Pierce
Adams
"Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry."-George
Ade
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game
is money. - Al Alvarez
Yes, I think poker really isn’t gambling – Al Alvarez
“I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.”
Al Alvarez
“I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your
ego in, you're done for.” - Al Alvarez
“It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in
the sky.” - Al Alvarez
"If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table
is, it's you." – Anonymous
"Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be
any to take out" – Anonymous
"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
"This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and
the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse
and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that
table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe."
Paul Auster, "The Music of Chance" (1990)
"People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from
playing poker" – Mary Austin
"You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark
of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he
handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no
difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it
all away." - Bobby Baldwin
"In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket."
Beausourire, Haitian Poker Player
“Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And
casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people”
Samantha Bee
“The best part about poker is there's no down side” - Samantha Bee
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money
without giving an equivalent for it. - Henry Ward Beecher
“In the absence of any mathematical explanation, one thing is for certain; if
you engage in games of chance long enough, the experience is bound to
affect the way you see God. Successfully draw to an inside straight three
hands in a row, and you’ve got to be blessed. But if you’re the person drawn
out on, the one whose trip aces just got snapped for the third time, you will
go home feeling cursed.” - Andy Bellin, Poker Nation
"One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and
a package of garden seeds." Dan Bennett
"I've learned the lesson that the worst thing that can happen
to a gambler is to let his recent losses or wins knock him
off keel emotionally." -Andrew Beyer
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the
business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce
POKER, A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this
lexicographer unknown." - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906)
”I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much
would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine;
to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to
spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet
twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game that is his privilege.”
Jack Binion
Good luck needs no explanation. - Shirley Temple Black
The champion makes his own luck. - Red Blaik
"I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I
think I'm the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker
career." - Jim Boyd, modern-day road gambler
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