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.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Quit while you’re ahead. All the best gamblers do.

By gaming, we lose both our time and treasure: two things most precious to the life of man.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

When I was young, people called me a gambler. As the scale of my operations increased I became known as a speculator. Now I am called a banker. But I have been doing the same thing all the time.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.

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

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

You don’t gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.

One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

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

Gambling is a way of buying hope on credit.

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned…

The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

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

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked “Bet Here”, but only one window with the legend “Pay Out”.

Show me a wealthy gambler and I’ll show you someone who has made his money from something other than gambling.

A gambler never makes the same mistake twice. It’s usually three or more times.

A gambler plays even when the odds are immutable and against him.

You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.

I love blackjack. But I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures.

In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all…

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.

Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.

Eat your betting money but don’t bet your eating money.

Every dog has his day in luck.

Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster.