Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler (1867)

Your mother has this crazy idea that gambling is wrong. Even though they say it's okay in the bible.
- Homer Simpson

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

Gambling is a principle inherent in nature.
-Edmund Burke, House of Commons speech (1780)

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.
-Dr. G

People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.
– Sarah Jessica Parker

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.
- US congressman John Conyers

The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be.
-Mark Pilarski

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.
-Mark Twain

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
-Pope John XXIII

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)

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