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Gambler Quotes

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"Gambling, at its healthiest, is one way of activating the soul, nudging
it from its hungry sleep. I’m speaking about gambling in its most reductive
form: taking a chance. The act of taking a chance is energizing. The art of
taking a chance can lead to the sublime.

"They gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if there’s
another one."

"Games are natures’s most beautiful creation. All animals play games, and
the true Messianic vision of the brotherhood of creatures must be based on
the idea of the game."

"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."

"Games must be regarded not as conscious inventions, but as survivals from
primitive conditions, under which they originated in magical rites and
chiefly as means of divination."

"Sure, there’s tension and nerves. But you take the greatest dramatists in
the world- Shakespeare, Shaw- they couldn’t improve on the scripts you get
in ballgames."

"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."

"The typical gambler may not really understand the probabilistic nuances of
the wheelor the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say,
trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours."

"I have often wondered if the results of the Versailles Conferences
following the First World War would have been different if Woodrow Wilson
had been a poker player."

"Those who live in the midst of democratic fluctuations have always before
their eyes the image of chance; and they end by liking all undertakings in
which chance plays a part."

"We are a nation of gamblers- some cooly professional, some driven and
compulsive, most casual but nonetheless fascinated."

"I am sorry I have not learned to play at cards. Is is very useful in
life: it generates kindness and consolidates society."

"A person who plays nard (a precursor to backgammon) without accompanying
gambling is like… one who uses the grease of pigs to anoint himself."

"As far as The Sky is concerned, money is just something for him to play
with and dollars might as well be doughnuts as far as value goes with him."

"It is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as
immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the
percentages are better than religion."

"When it seemed to me after a long illness that death was close at hand. I
found no little solace in playing constantly at dice."

"Gaming itself… will only end when human nature has changed completely and
there are no more bets to win."

"Gamblers play just as lovers make love and drunkards drink- blindly and of
necessity, under domination of an irresistible force."

"A true gambler played because he loved the thrill he had on the turn of a
card, because it tested his ability to out-wit and out-guess the other
person.

"It is said that the Earl of Sandwich invented that most common item of
food that bears his name so that he could manage to eat without leaving the
gambling table."

"Gambling is an art form,” he said to me. “Some people gamble because they
think there is money in it. Yes, there is money in it when you are lucky.
But then the meaning of the game is distorted."

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"One man I know likes all the traffic lights to be green when he drives to
a game, so he can get the feeling of everything going right for him."

"All gamblers look for signs, and I was given an appropriate one that first
week when a filling from one of my molars popped out."

"Many gamblers think they’ve been singled out by fate as a target for cruel
jokes. They feel they alone in all the universe are being tortured,
experimented upon by some unknown force."

"A simple method of making a man lose is to wait until he has thrown a used
matchstick into the ashtray, and then put another crosswise over it. His
luck is thus crossed out."

"I’m naturally paranoid. When I play cards with my kids I always cut the
deck… All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition."

"Astrologers make claims for themselves; yet I have never seen an
astrologer who was lucky at gambling, nor were those lucky who took their
advice."

"The more I reflect upon a great number of events, past or present, the
more I recognize the effect of chance in all earthly things."

"No matter what our character, no matter what our behavior, no matter if we
are ugly, unkingly, murderers, saints, guilty sinners, foolish, or wise, we
can get lucky."

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"Dice will run the contrary way,
As well is known to all who play
And cards will conspire as in treason."

"Chance arises from disorder, not regularity. It demands randomness - its
light sparkles in dark obscurity. We fail it when we shield it from
misfortune, and its sparkle abandons it when failed."

"Alea (chance)… tends rather to abolish natural or acquired individual
differences, so that all can be placed on an absolutely equal footing to
await the blind verdict of chance."

"The pure sensuality of the betting moment… It is a neurological jolt
made up of greed, lust and excitement mixed together with a strong dose of
fear."

"It’s ruthless. Completely ruthless. The cards terrorize you. Seconds
stretch. It’s like having the worst flu you can imagine for twenty
seconds."