Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Gambling Mantras!

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • #16
    "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

    "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

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

    "Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature." - Edmund Burke, in a speech before the House Of Commons (1780)

    "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)
    "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

    Comment


    • #17
      "They gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if there's another one." - Richard Albert Canfield

      "The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown." - Bernard Shaw

      "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

      "I've learned the lesson that the worst thing that can happen to a gambler is to let his recent losses or wins knock him off keel emotionally." - Andrew Beyer

      "Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined." - Timothy L. O'Brien, Bad Bet (1998)

      "They (slot machines) sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated." - Frank Scoblete

      "Gambling itself will only end when human nature has changed completely and there are no more bets to win." - Harold S. Smith Sr., I Want to Quit Winners
      "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

      Comment


      • #18
        The majority of casino players leave to much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play." - Henry Tamburin

        "They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly." - Frank Scoblete

        "One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds." - Dan Bennett

        "A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned." - Paul Newman, The Color of Money

        "My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: "It can't be done." - John Scarne

        "When a gambler picks up a pack of cards or a pair of dice, he feels as though he has reduced an unmanageable world to a finite, visible and comprehensive size." - Annabel Davis-Goff, The Literary Companion to Gambling

        "If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough." VP Pappy
        "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

        Comment


        • #19
          And these I particularly like

          "Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom." - VP Pappy (A crusty old sage that still roams the Green Felt Jungles in Detroit)

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

          "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
          "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

          Comment


          • #20
            And the all time best quote!

            God, let me win this bet and I will never bet again!!!
            "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

            Comment

            Working...
            X