50 Big Risk, Big Reward Gambling Quotes

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Gambling is one of humankind’s oldest activities.

For our ancient ancestors, going out to hunt, gather food, or construct housing was a gamble. 

Today we all gamble one way or another.

Driving in a car or flying in a plane are gambles that include some risks. 

It is uncertain how far gambling goes back, but we have concrete evidence from as early as 200 BC in ancient China, where forms of gambling existed.

In China, archeologists found keno slips for funding state works that possibly led to the Great Wall’s construction.

Similar to present-day conditions, past governments strictly regulated and curtailed gambling.

Ancient China, Greece, Rome, and Egypt all had laws prohibiting or limiting gambling practices. 

Many cultures in the past used lotteries to fund ventures.

Elihu Yale used lottery funds to establish Yale University.

Harvard University had a similar origin.  

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Funny Gambling Quotes

1. “Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures.” – Simon Noble

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2. “The better the gambler, the worse the man.” – Publius Syrus

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3. “Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster.” – Yugoslav Proverb

4. “Eat your betting money but don’t bet your eating money.” – Chinese Proverb

5. “True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.” – John Milton Hay

6. “The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.” – Wilson Mizner

7. “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” – Kin Hubbard

8. “Last year, people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.” – Samantha Bee

9. “You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

10. “The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.” – Julius Weintraub

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11. “The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” – Kin Hubbard

12. “Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.” – Wilson Mizner

13. “Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.” – Charles Lamb

14. “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.” – Damon Runyon

15. “Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.” – Will Rogers

16. “Women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.” – Gloria Steinem

17. “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

18. “The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.” – Heywood Hale Broun

19. “I don’t gamble because winning a hundred dollars doesn’t give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.” – Alex Trebek

20. “No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner.” – Thomas Dewar

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Gambling Quotes From Movies

21. “I only gamble with my life, never my money.” – Brendan Fraser

22. “This schmuck is gambling? You’re talking about Franky. “I’ve got a problem with gambling” Four Fingers!” – Dennis Farina (Cousin Avi) Snatch

23. “He got over his gambling problem, but the bookies beat him to death anyway. So, he’s dead. That’s it.” – Norm Macdonald

24. “Made a crazy risk. You gamble, and it’s – about to pay off.” – Adam Sandler

25. “An Englishman never jokes about a wager, sir.” – David Diven

26. “Sure is a hard town for a fella to have a quiet game o’ poker in.” – Henry Fonda

27. “Oh, I don’t lose. People who bet on me to lose-lose. And they lose big.” – Al Pacino

28. “I’m going to find moral redemption at the roulette table.” – Steve Carrell

29. “I find I can make a very honest living cheating at cards.” – Millard Mitchell

30. “I like blackjacks a little more than I should.” – Jason Statham

Gambling Quotes From The Bible

31. “Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labor shall increase.” – Proverbs 13:11 

32. “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” – 1 Timothy 6:10 

33. “The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.” – Proverbs 16:33

34. “But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.” – 1 Timothy 6:9-10

35. “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” – Matthew 6:24

36. “He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.” – Ecclesiastes 5:10

37. “But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.” – 1 Timothy 6:9

38. “And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” – Luke 12:15

39. “Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.” – Ephesians 4:28

40. He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.” – Proverbs 28:22

Gambling Quotes and Sayings

41. “Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.” – Henry Ward Beecher

42. “At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” – Ian Fleming

43. “The only man who makes money following the races is the one who does it with a broom and shovel.” – Elbert Hubbard

44. “Gambling is the great leveler. All men are equal at cards.” – Nikolai Gogol

45. “Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.” – Henry Ward Beecher

46. “Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers. Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints.” – Toba Beta

47. “Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.” – John Dewey

48. “Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn’t play poker.” – Alfred Alvarez

49. “There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.”— French Proverb

50. “To be a poker champion, you must have a strong bladder.” – Jack McClelland

What did you learn from these gambling quotes?

For many cultures in the past, gambling was not necessarily betting.

People had different views of life, and the concept of determining fate was prevalent in many societies. 

Evidence exists in carved writings or tombs of equipment used for gambling.

Casting lots of marked sticks, throwing knuckle bones, and choosing lengths of hay were all considered divinely influenced. 

Humans sought knowledge of the future from the gods, and the game’s outcome reflected cosmic wisdom.

The gods spoke through the game.

It was not long before people went from seeking their destiny to betting on outcomes. 

Today gambling is more popular than ever.

Data from PBS polls suggest over 60% of American adults gambled last year or over the past twelve months on some activity, and over 80% say that gambling is legitimate and casinos are okay. 

Gambling generates more revenue than movies, spectator sports, theme parks, cruise ships, and recorded music combined.

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