Greatest Gambling Quotes

Greatest Gambling Quotes - British, French and American Contributions to World Culture

Some of the world’s greatest quotations that have become legacies have been about the topic of gambling. These quotations have been attributed to men and women from all walks of life. These individuals have included philosophers, world leaders, politicians, commentators, writers, religious figures and authors of unknown origin.

For pedagogical as well as for humorous purposes, you’ll be delighted to review our compilation of some of the more lasting quotes about gambling. The quotes are divided into the countries of their origin so that these nations can get the credit, or discredit, that they deserve.

U.K.
  •  The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. (Anonymous Source of English Proverb)
  •  Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing. (George Bernard Shaw)
  •  You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbour. (John Ruskin)
  •  One should always play fair when one has winning cards. (Oscar Wilde)
  •  Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. (Samuel Johnson)

France
  •  Nothing is sacred to a gamester. (Bernard Joseph Saurin)
  •  The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have won or lost in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice-box in hand, shaking the dice. (Dennis Diderot)
  •  Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. (Anonymous Source of French Proverb)
  •  There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing. (Anonymous Source of French Proverb)
  •  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)

U.S.A.
  •  Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. (George Washington)
  •  Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sense reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. (Gloria Steinem)
  •  I’ve been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points. (Joe E. Lewis)
  •  If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy. (Joe Laurie, Jr.)
  •  Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with. (Anonymous Source of U.S.A. Proverb)

Please take these greatest gambling quotes under advisement, and remember not to take yourself as seriously as you have been. Life is a box of chocolates (Forrest Gump). Enjoy life!

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