Top 32 Best Gamblers Quotes
#1. For those gamblers who know the secret to surviving Is knowing what to throw away And knowing what to keep
Karina Halle
#2. Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.
Marcel Duchamp
#3. I joined gamblers anon., they gave me 2 to 1 I wouldn't make it! I joined AA, there was a two drink minimum!
Rodney Dangerfield
#4. [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.
John Steinbeck
#5. Vinny was flying on Learjets all over the country to gamble. The fact is, Vinny Gorgeous was the mirror image of John Gotti. The two mob bosses were degenerate gamblers. Vinny even got himself barred from Atlantic City.
Dominick Cicale
#6. Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Gautama Buddha
#7. So the story goes, so I'm told
The people he knew were
Less than golden hearted
Gamblers and robbers
Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers
Like you and me
Dave Matthews
#8. Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.
Robert E. Howard
#9. The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.
William Poundstone
#10. Successful gamblers - and successful forecasters of any kind - do not think of the future in terms of no-lose bets, unimpeachable theories, and infinitely precise measurements. These are the illusions of the sucker, the sirens of his overconfidence.
Nate Silver
#11. To make love last, you've got to treat it like the ultimate poker hand; you've got to go all in.
Max Hawthorne
#12. What Nietzsche is describing is a kind of transcendence - a mental state of complete and utter absorption well known to artists, athletes, gamblers, musicians, dancers, soldiers in battle, mystics, meditators, and the devout during prayer.
Michael Pollan
#13. They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.
Pete Rose
#14. It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and downs.
George R R Martin
#15. Trusting fate, especial to resolve anything is a pure gamble.
Steven Redhead
#16. That was the reason the casino bothered to list the wheel's most recent spins: to help gamblers to delude themselves.
Michael Lewis
#17. Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.
Firoozeh Dumas
#18. When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
Don Rickles
#19. I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
Wayne Newton
#20. All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
Mario Puzo
#21. Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers.
Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints.
Toba Beta
#22. God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.
Mark Twain
#23. Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
Charles Mackay
#24. I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.
Daniel Negreanu
#25. Do you gamble, Captain MacNeill?"
"Never, sir."
"No?" the marquis looked surprised. "Thought you soldiers were all inveterate gamblers."
"Only with our lives, sir. Never had anything else I could afford to lose.
Connie Brockway
#26. Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
Jules Verne
#27. The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.
Thomas Jefferson
#28. The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
Marcel Carne
#29. Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not find it necessary to rob, swindle or grind the faces of the poor.
Aldous Huxley
#30. I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.
Jean De La Bruyere
#31. Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
Honore De Balzac
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