Behind gambling, casinos, games and luck is an entire universe and a whole philosophy to go along with it. Since the first bet ever made, probably between two cavemen betting how many spears will it take to bring down a wild boar, there have been people who tried to understand the laws (or lack of) of luck and what makes us all dare fate and guess the future.
Before you are 28 quotes ranging from “mere” poker players such as Nick Dandalos to geniuses such as Albert Einstein. All of them encompassed, each in his own way, an aspect of the gambling world and even of the gambling concept. Together they offer an insight into that strange twist of fate that we call luck and to the timeless universal phenomenon which we call gambling.
Albert Einstein, famous physicist: “You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.”
Jack Yelton: “There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.”
Owen Felltham: “By gaming we lose both our time and treasure – two things most precious to the life of man.”
Simon Noble, an Austrian-based internet bookmaker: “Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures.”
Kin Hubbard: “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.”
Jim Jones: “A man’s gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it.”
Steve Allen, entertainer: “I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That’s how I lost my mind.”
Dean Martin, singer & actor: “When your opponent’s sittin’ there holdin’ all the aces, there’s only one thing to do: kick over the table.”
Former US president Bill Clinton: Commenting on his mother’s visit to Las Vegas on the weekend before she died: “She got to go to heaven four days early.”
Franz Rosenthal, Gambling in Islam (1975): “The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man’s natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future.”
