"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."
"Suckers have no business with money anyway."
-Canada Bill Jones, Legendary Three-card Monte Dealer
"Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry."
-George Ade
"At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell."
-Michael Ventura
"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
I hope to break even this week. I need the money.
-VETERAN LAS VEGAS GAMBLER
The Wampanoag Tribe has a machine, and they say, "It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly."
-Former Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld
"The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man's natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future."
-Franz Rosenthal, Gambling in Islam (1975)
"Why otherwise would that dignified fellow dressed like a banker be sitting at a machine murmuring; "Talk to me baby, I know you understand my needs."
-Roger Fleming
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