Gambling Quote of the Week

We have scoured the archives to build a wonderful collection of fantastic gambling-related quotes. We are doling out these gems of wisdom weekly in this section.

Here is this week's gambling quote:

As silly as it might seem at first, craps is not just a game of cold probabilities and memory-less dice at all times with all shooters. Rather it is a game of ebbs and flows, and rhythms and repetitions. - The Captain of Craps

Archive of Past Quotes Covering Craps & Other Casino Games

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Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly. - William Shakespeare, King Lear

Gambling is a way of buying hope on credit. - Alan Wykes

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 comprehensible size. - Annabel Davis-Goff

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. - Heywood Broun

[Vegas] looks like somebody took one of Liberace's jackets and made a city out of it. - Lance Humble, Ph.D. and Carl Cooper, Ph.D.

Don't be suckered into making sucker bets, unless, of course, you don't know the difference, in which case you're a sucker anyhow. - John Gollehon

Never bet on anything that talks. - Gambling advice

Eat your betting money but don't bet your eating money. - Horseracing proverb

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. - Oscar Wilde

Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people. - W. C. Fields

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. - William Wycherley

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone. - Earl Wilson

Scobe's First Law: Whenever the count gets really high and you have your biggest bet out, some moron will sit down and win. Scobe's Corollary to his First Law: The moron who just sat down always gets the blackjack with the minimum bet out. You bust with a huge bet out. - Frank Scoblete

Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle. - Mitch Hedberg

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights. - Sir Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Atlantic Airways

Pitchers don't pitch perfect games every time out. In fact, each separate roll of the dice to a player who can control them is like a pitch in a game. The good pitchers will consistently throw strikes and have good games, not every time out, but enough that you can say this isn't randomness or luck. - The Captain of Craps

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost. - Hedy Lamarr

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. - Oprah Winfrey

God does not play dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein

Scobe's second law: You never really rejoice at the other guy's blackjack. - Frank Scoblete

Clark Griswold: How did you win four cars?
Rusty: You know, put in a dollar, win a car. Put in another dollar, win another car...
- Las Vegas Vacation

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray. - Publilius Syrus

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it. - Douglas William Jerrold

My definition of a good roll is simple: it's one where the seven doesn't show long enough to make me money or one where I can make a good profit because there's a rapid succession of repeating numbers. - The Captain of Craps

I can resist anything except temptation. - Oscar Wilde

The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily. - Sophicles

Scobe's Third Law: All morons have bad teeth and bad breath and they will make it a point to sit next to you and talk to you. They're always looking to whisper something secret up your nose. - Frank Scoblete

David Howard: As the boldest experiment in advertising history, you give us our money back.
Desert Inn Casino Manager: I beg your pardon?
- Lost in America with Albert Brooks

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Scobe's Fourth Law: The smoke in the casino always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker, regardless of which way the air conditioner is blowing. If the non-smoker has a smoker to the left of him and a smoker to the right of him, both their smokes will converge on him. Twenty years later the smokers will still be smoking and the non-smoker will be in an iron lung. - Frank Scoblete

Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate. - Anatole France

I have been running the craps game since I was a juvenile delinquent. - Frank Detroit, Guys and Dolls

Almost all life depends on probabilities. - Francois Voltaire

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six. - Navjot Singh Sidhu

Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing. - Frank Scoblete

The dice of God are always loaded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. - George Bernard Shaw

Scobe's Sixth Law: If a drink is to be spilled anywhere in the casino it will be at your table during a high count, just as you're being dealt a blackjack. The pit boss will immediately say, Bets are off! The moron who spilled the drink will go: Yuk! Yuk! and order another drink. - Frank Scoblete

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong but that's the way to bet. - Damon Runyon

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth. - Herbert Spencer

Scobe's Seventh Law: All Blackjack players are experts who are, unfortunately, willing to share their advice for free. - Frank Scoblete

Said, if you're gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.
You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.
- Kenny Rogers

Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely. - Frank Scoblete

Luck let a gentleman see
Just how nice a dame you can be
I know the way you've treated other guys you've been with
Luck be a lady with me.
- Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, Guys and Dolls

Scobe's Ninth Law: Seats will magically appear at your blackjack table when the most obnoxious people enter the casino. - Frank Scoblete

As silly as it might seem at first, craps is not just a game of cold probabilities and memory-less dice at all times with all shooters. Rather it is a game of ebbs and flows, and rhythms and repetitions. - The Captain of Craps