The Gambler Quotes

1. Gambling Phrases
2. Funny Quotes About Gambling
3. Lucky Sayings Gambling
4. Quotes About Gambling

In a way, the novel is simply about gambling. It offers a sad, lush portrait of Alexis's life as he descends further and further into a life of roulettes and casino living. This is obviously a symbolic reference to itself, because the damages of gambling are clearly on display, but the plot has a far deeper meaning that is implied through suggestion. By showing that Alexis has taken his life and used it wrongly, the question is raised, what would it have meant to live rightly?

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• The subject of gambling is one that generates a lot of opinions, and some great quotes too. On this page we have put together a collection of some of the best gambling related quotes. We start with a few of our personal favorites and offer our own comments on these quotes. Then we have some of the top poker quotes, again including our own comments.

One issue is Alexis's relationship to joy and hope. In the general plot of his life, Alexis is frustrated by his community, because it feels to him that he has a limitless potential that is often not honored in his friendships. His community has an opinion of him that deviates from his own opinion, and so his experience of community is riddled by frustration. However, this is a puzzle with more than one solution; instead of victimhood and the chronic disenfranchisement of youth, he could have chosen responsibility.

Gambling Phrases

Here are the best quotes from 'The Gambler,' a movie that tells the story of one man who gets into trouble while gambling. The crime drama is an adaptation of the 1974 film of the same title and was directed by Rupert Wyatt using a screenplay by William Monahan. 'The Gambler' opened in theaters on December 25, 2014.

Instead, he succumbs to a nefarious temptation to gamble. One can view gambling through the lens of temporary hope for a radical improvement in fate. The manic hope that is available as the roulette wheel spins is a kind of hope that is paid for, purchased with money. He thinks his money is being traded for real opportunity, but he is simply paying for the right to enjoy a false, temporary hope. The chronic effect is that his hope in real life diminishes, and his will to resist the temptation weakens. He becomes addicted.

Quotations about Gambling

Funny Quotes About Gambling

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Lucky Sayings Gambling

Quotes About Gambling

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. ~From the movie The Color of Money
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
For most men (till by losing rendered sager)
Will back their own opinions by a wager.
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, 'Beppo'
A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book. ~German Proverb
Gaming is the son of avarice and the father of despair. ~French proverb
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something. ~Wilson Mizner
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
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. ~Hugh E. Keough
In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Kin Hubbard
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem
The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours. ~Arthur S. Reber, The New Gambler's Bible
No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. ~Thomas Robert Dewar
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. ~Heywood Broun
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. ~Jack Yelton
A permanent and intense interest is acquirable in baccarat, or in any other game, but you have to buy it. You don't get it by standing around and looking on.... Constantly money and chips are flung upon the table, and the game seems to consist in the croupier's reaching for these things with a flexible sculling oar, and raking them home. It appeared to be a rational enough game for him, and if I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed... ~Mark Twain, 'Aix, the Paradise of the Rheumatics'
In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here,' but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out.' ~Jeffrey Bernard
A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope. ~William Bolitho
I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely. ~Joe E. Lewis
In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there. ~Author Unknown
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ~Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1823
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. ~R.E. Shay
If you would read a mans Disposition, see him Game, you will then learn more of him in one hour, than in seven Years Conversation... ~Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice To A Young Gentleman Leaving the University, Concerning his Behaviour and Conversation in the World, 1670
The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself. ~Nick Dandalos
Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money. ~Author Unknown
A race track is a place where windows clean people. ~Danny Thomas
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety and nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way. ~Mark Twain (at Bayreuth)
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
Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man. ~Owen Felltham
At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~Author Unknown
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. ~Will Rogers
No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. ~Bud Flanagan
Horse racing is animated roulette. ~Roger Kahn
I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five. ~Henny Youngman
One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. ~Dan Bennett
A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time. ~Author Unknown
The better the gambler, the worse the man. ~Publilius Syrus
A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses. ~Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1832
There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away. ~Author Unknown
Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. ~Author Unknown
Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due. ~Richard Blackmore, The Jockey Club and its Founders, 1891
Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people. ~W.C. Fields
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. ~Ambrose Bierce

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