Casino and its Famous Faces

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

A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane.

-George Augustus Sala

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.

-Wilson Mizner 

I am sorry I have not learned to play cards. It is very useful in life. It generates kindness and consolidates society.

-Samuel Johnson  

Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself. 

-Nicholas (Nick the Greek) Dandalos

If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough.

-VP Pappy

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

-Jim Morrison

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

- -Gloria Steinem

A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it.

- Jim Jones 

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
-Henry Ward Beecher  

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
-Mitch Hedberg  

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax…laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

-Thomas Jefferson

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

-Albert Einstein

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

-Michael Ventura

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

A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.

--William Bolitho

 

In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge.  Nothing ever gets hit there.

-Anonymous 

Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face. 

-VP Pappy 

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
-James Weldon Johnson  

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.
-Spencer Bachus

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
-Georges Pompidou

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

-Jack Dreyfus of Dreyfus Mutual Fund

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

-Bernard Shaw

They (slot machines) sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

-Frank Scoblete

The majority of casino players leave to much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play.

-Henry Tamburin

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

-Charles Lamb

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

-Pope John XXIII

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

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

Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life

-Anthony Holden