"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something."

— Unknown

"I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind."

— Steve Allen

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."

— Ambrose Bierce

"The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil."

— Heywood Hale Broun

"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich—something for nothing. "

— George Bernard Shaw

"Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical 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

"In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not."

— Mark Duffy

"Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people."

— Samantha Bee

"I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off."

— Alex Trebek

"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

"Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math."

— Unknown

"No wife can endure a gambling husband—unless he is a steady winner."

— Thomas Robert Dewar

"A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated."

— Leo Tolstoy

"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