Gambling (gaming) Quotes

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

W. H. Auden

I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.

Ronald Reagan

Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

John Gay

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Sophocles

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

English Proverb

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

Oscar Wilde

The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game theory.

P. Ordeshook

Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

Proverb

Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.

Proverb

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion. Over a large number of bets, the odds even out and we can makepredictions; that's why casino owners are so rich. But over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

Stephen Hawking

With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith.

Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas

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

Proverb

There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.

Proverb

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.

Denis Diderot

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

Bernard Joseph Saurin

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.

Albert Einstein

But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.

Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

John Ruskin

Never bet on baseball.

Pete Rose