Gambling Quote of the Week

We have scoured the archives to build a wonderful collection of fantastic gambling-related quotes. We are doling out these gems of wisdom weekly in this section.

Here is this week's gambling quote:

I have been running the craps game since I was a juvenile delinquent. - Frank Detroit, Guys and Dolls

Archive of Past Quotes Covering Craps & Other Casino Games

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Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly. - William Shakespeare, King Lear

Gambling is a way of buying hope on credit. - Alan Wykes

When a gambler picks up a pack of cards or a pair of dice he feels as though he has reduced an unmanageable world to a finite, visible and comprehensible size. - Annabel Davis-Goff

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. - Heywood Broun

[Vegas] looks like somebody took one of Liberace's jackets and made a city out of it. - Lance Humble, Ph.D. and Carl Cooper, Ph.D.

Don't be suckered into making sucker bets, unless, of course, you don't know the difference, in which case you're a sucker anyhow. - John Gollehon

Never bet on anything that talks. - Gambling advice

Eat your betting money but don't bet your eating money. - Horseracing proverb

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. - Oscar Wilde

Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people. - W. C. Fields

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. - William Wycherley

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone. - Earl Wilson

Scobe's First Law: Whenever the count gets really high and you have your biggest bet out, some moron will sit down and win. Scobe's Corollary to his First Law: The moron who just sat down always gets the blackjack with the minimum bet out. You bust with a huge bet out. - Frank Scoblete

Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey

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

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights. - Sir Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Atlantic Airways

Pitchers don't pitch perfect games every time out. In fact, each separate roll of the dice to a player who can control them is like a pitch in a game. The good pitchers will consistently throw strikes and have good games, not every time out, but enough that you can say this isn't randomness or luck. - The Captain of Craps

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost. - Hedy Lamarr

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. - Oprah Winfrey

God does not play dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein

Scobe's second law: You never really rejoice at the other guy's blackjack. - Frank Scoblete

Clark Griswold: How did you win four cars?
Rusty: You know, put in a dollar, win a car. Put in another dollar, win another car...
- Las Vegas Vacation

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray. - Publilius Syrus

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it. - Douglas William Jerrold

My definition of a good roll is simple: it's one where the seven doesn't show long enough to make me money or one where I can make a good profit because there's a rapid succession of repeating numbers. - The Captain of Craps

I can resist anything except temptation. - Oscar Wilde

The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily. - Sophicles

Scobe's Third Law: All morons have bad teeth and bad breath and they will make it a point to sit next to you and talk to you. They're always looking to whisper something secret up your nose. - Frank Scoblete

David Howard: As the boldest experiment in advertising history, you give us our money back.
Desert Inn Casino Manager: I beg your pardon?
- Lost in America with Albert Brooks

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Scobe's Fourth Law: The smoke in the casino always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker, regardless of which way the air conditioner is blowing. If the non-smoker has a smoker to the left of him and a smoker to the right of him, both their smokes will converge on him. Twenty years later the smokers will still be smoking and the non-smoker will be in an iron lung. - Frank Scoblete

Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate. - Anatole France

I have been running the craps game since I was a juvenile delinquent. - Frank Detroit, Guys and Dolls