"Gambling is a principle inherent in nature."
-Edmund Burke, House of Commons speech (1780)
"If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun."
-Chico Marx
"He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces."
-Mark Twain
"When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions.
-Minnesota Fats
"My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities."
-Jack Dreyfus of Dreyfus Mutual Fund
"I have always wondered if the results of the Versailles Conferences would have been different if Woodrow Wilson had been a poker player."
-Clyde Brion Davis Quoted in A. D. Livingston, Poker Strategy and Winning Play
In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
-Proverb
"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 you face."
-VP Pappy
"Look high, look low, and we see that gamblers actually form the majority of the world's inhabitants."
-James Runciman, Side Lights (1893)
"They gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if there's another one."
-Richard Albert Canfield
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