Quotes from Gambling Life
Quotes about gambling and online casinos
"Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either." - US congressman John Conyers
"Your mother has this crazy idea that gambling is wrong. Even though they say it's okay in the bible." - Homer Simpson
"Although blatant ripoffs can never be ruled out, there have been surprisingly few." - Bill Haywood, author, BeatWebCasinos.com
"Whosoever risketh not, drinketh champaigne not" - Russian proverb
"Blackjack is the only casino game an amateur can learn to play and at which he can definitely win."
-Lawrence Revere, author, Playing Blackjack as a Business
"A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the
stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way."
-Mark Twain
"Gambling is a principle inherent in nature."
-Edmund Burke, House of Commons speech (1780)
"Betting is the only moral thing you can do. It is an intellectual pursuit, as good as The Times crossword. For millions, it is the
only uninfluenced democratic decision they take" - Lord Wyatt
"Look high, look low, and we see that gamblers actually form the majority of the world's inhabitants."
-James Runciman, Side Lights (1893)
"It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees."
-Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas
"Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined."
-Timothy L. O'Brien, Bad Bet (1998)
"A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned."
-Paul Newman, The Color of Money
"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."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler (1867)
"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."
-Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1832)
"Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures."
-Simon Noble, an Austrian-based internet bookmaker
"We can't stop those who choose online gambling. We can't have Internet police in everyone's home.
So, if we can't stop you from doing it, the best thing we can do is regulate it." - Assemblyman Anthony Impreveduto, New Jersey.
"The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble."
-Michael Ondaatje, Running the Family
"The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be."
-Mark Pilarski
"It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck." - Joseph Conrad
"Your mother has this crazy idea that gambling is wrong. Even though they say it's okay in the bible." - Homer Simpson
"Although blatant ripoffs can never be ruled out, there have been surprisingly few." - Bill Haywood, author, BeatWebCasinos.com
"Whosoever risketh not, drinketh champaigne not" - Russian proverb
"Blackjack is the only casino game an amateur can learn to play and at which he can definitely win."
-Lawrence Revere, author, Playing Blackjack as a Business
"A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the
stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way."
-Mark Twain
"Gambling is a principle inherent in nature."
-Edmund Burke, House of Commons speech (1780)
"Betting is the only moral thing you can do. It is an intellectual pursuit, as good as The Times crossword. For millions, it is the
only uninfluenced democratic decision they take" - Lord Wyatt
"Look high, look low, and we see that gamblers actually form the majority of the world's inhabitants."
-James Runciman, Side Lights (1893)
"It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees."
-Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas
"Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined."
-Timothy L. O'Brien, Bad Bet (1998)
"A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned."
-Paul Newman, The Color of Money
"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."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler (1867)
"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."
-Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1832)
"Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures."
-Simon Noble, an Austrian-based internet bookmaker
"We can't stop those who choose online gambling. We can't have Internet police in everyone's home.
So, if we can't stop you from doing it, the best thing we can do is regulate it." - Assemblyman Anthony Impreveduto, New Jersey.
"The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble."
-Michael Ondaatje, Running the Family
"The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be."
-Mark Pilarski
"It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck." - Joseph Conrad