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The best throw with the dice is to throw them away. ~Anonymous


Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich - something for nothing. ~George Bernard Shaw


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


Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. ~Paul Newman in the movie "The Color of Money"


In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb


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


Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical 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


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


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


Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed. ~Mark Twain


In most betting shops you will see three windows marked "Bet Here", but only one window with the legend "Pay Out". ~Jeffrey Bernard


You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. ~Albert Einstein


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


Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on your face. ~Anonymous


Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb


The better the gambler, the worse the man. ~Publius Syrus


Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster. ~Yugoslav proverb


"In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the keno lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there." ~An anonymous casino boss


"Stop cheating!" the dealer told the card player. "I'm not!" claimed the player. "You must be," said the dealer. "That is not the hand that I dealt you."


"He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces." ~Mark Twain


"Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one." ~Pope John XXIII


A Smith & Wesson beats four aces. ~American Proverb


"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


"If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you." ~Paul Newman