Gambling Terms / Quotes

 

Gambling Terms

 

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

By Tom Stoppard

edge  An advantage over an opponent.

even money  A bet that pays you back the same amount that you wagered, plus your original wager. shown as a ratio of 1:1.

One-Armed Bandit  A term for a slot machine.

Take  A term that refers to the casino receipts.

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A Few Gambling Quotes

No woman can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
Author: Thomas Dewar

Someone 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 and incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
Author: Gloria Steinem

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Author: Dean Inge

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Author: Ambrose Bierce

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
Author: John Ruskin

There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
A French Proverb

Your mother has this crazy idea that gambling is wrong. Even though they say it’s okay in the bible.
Author: Dan Castellaneta

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win.
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon

I don’t gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn’t give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
Author: Alex Trebek

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
Author: George Raft

 

 

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