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Inspiring Quotes About Games, Gambling, Luck, and Life

Explore insightful quotes from famous people about gambling, as well as about luck and life. For example, what did Albert Einstein, the author of so many great quotes, think about roulette? The quotes are sorted by category. Enjoy reading, reflecting, and having fun!

Gambling

"We gamble because life seems too predictable and safe." – Dan Savage

"Gambling is everything a person does, but the biggest gamble is doing nothing." – Shirley Williams

"Three paths to certain ruin: women, gambling, and a handyman in the house." – Georges Pompidou

"It's kind of like gambling. You go out at night to drink and you don't know where you're going to end up the next day. It could be good, or it could be a disaster. It's like rolling the dice." – Jim Morrison

"All the evidence indicates that God is actually a gambler, and the universe is one big casino, where he spins the roulette wheel and throws dice at every opportunity." – Stephen Hawking

"Elections are always a bit of a gamble, like Checkers or Backgammon, with a slight moral tinge, it's a game of good and evil that raises questions about morality, and a certain bet naturally accompanies this game. The nature of the voters is not at stake. I cast my vote as I see fit, but I am not too concerned about whether my truth prevails. The binding nature of the majority's decision therefore never extends beyond expediency. To vote for the truth does not yet mean to do something for that truth... A wise man, however, cannot leave the truth in the hands of chance, or hope that the truth will be applied through the government of the majority. There is little morality in the actions of the masses... Only the voices of people who want to affirm their own freedom by this choice can accelerate the abolition of slavery." – Henry David Thoreau

Games in General

"Participants in a high-stakes game love anonymity..." – Egon Erwin Kisch

"That is why festivals and games are held, so that our spirit can recover from fatigue in various ways and get rid of gloom and complaints." – Pericles

"Silence is the surest way to play the game, if we have uncertain chances." – François de La Rochefoucauld

"A man should be knowledgeable in games. A true man knows no greater glory than from the victory of his own arms and legs." – Homer

"Even in the game, there is unfreedom for man, even the game is a stalemate for the player... There is no escape from the game; the team cannot escape from the field before the end, the chess pieces cannot escape from the chessboard, the boundaries of the field are inviolable." – Milan Kundera

"In the game we play, we can't win. Some losses are better than others, that's all." – George Orwell

"When you don't know the rules of the game, it's much harder to play. – Waiting for a miracle." – Stacey Kade

"I have the impression that I am too susceptible to the magic of games." – Vladimir Nabokov

"In every true man, a child is hidden. He wants to play. – A true man wants two things: danger and play. That is why he longs for a woman, because she is the most dangerous toy." – Friedrich Nietzsche

"Dear friends. Life is a fight and many players have already dropped out. Hard times have forced them to end the game of impossibly fulfilling rules. It is so, whether we want it or not. Sometimes a 6 falls and sometimes we don't even have anything to play with. But still, life shuffles the cards for us. Before we decide to end the game, let's realize that there is at least one wonderful moment for which it is worth playing on..." – Unknown Author

"Play is one of the most effective ways to simplify life. That's exactly what we did as children, but in adulthood we forgot to play." – Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein and Dice

Figure 1: Albert Einstein 'God does not play dice' (source: Craiyon)

Cards

"Don't haggle over the cards that the game or life brings you." – Stephen King

"The art of living is not the art of playing with a good card, but the art of playing a good game with a bad card." – Robert Louis Stevenson

"Life is a card game in which hearts are never trumps." – Marcel Achard

"Fate shuffles the cards, we play." – Arthur Schopenhauer

"Until I win, of course I complain that the cards are badly shuffled." – Jonathan Swift

Dice

"God does not play dice." – Albert Einstein

"The die is cast." – Gaius Julius Caesar

"The consideration that black holes emit particles suggests that God not only plays dice, but sometimes throws them where no one can see them." – Stephen Hawking

"Let mixed wine and dice be brought! Let those who care about tomorrow perish! Death calls in our ear: "I'm coming, hurry up!"" – Maro Publius Vergilius

"Indeed, human life is a game of dice... When what was needed does not fall to you, then correct with art what fell by chance." – Publius Terentius Afer

"Throwing dice never excludes chance." – Stéphane Mallarmé

"Everyone plays as the dice fall to him; but a good player can win even with a bad dice." – František Vladislav Hek

Lottery

"Marriage is like a lottery. No one must expect that he will be the one who wins." – Guy de Maupassant

"Marriage is not a lottery. In the lottery, one sometimes wins." – George Bernard Shaw

"Mathematics is the only truly guaranteed way to go crazy." – Albert Einstein

Money, Business

"You can't buy life with money." – Bob Marley

"Business is a competition and any competition at a high level is almost entirely a game played with the head." – Mark Hume McCormack

Risk

"There is a risk that we can afford to take and a risk that we cannot afford not to take." – Peter Drucker

"When you don't risk anything, it's boring. The speculator puts his money into the game, I put my life into it." – Maurice Trintignant

"Not daring is fatal." – René Crevel

Roulette

"Horse races are like an animated roulette." – Roger Kahn

"You can never win at roulette, unless you steal money directly from the table." – Albert Einstein

"If I had money and stamina for drinking, I would probably spend my whole life at roulette and head to hell." – Michael Ventura

"Roulette only pays off for those who run it. However, the passion for the game is quite common, even if completely incomprehensible at roulette." – Bernard Shaw

"It's like a roulette wheel that you bet on in Las Vegas. It's a painful decision." – Uwe Reinhardt

"The only way to rob the roulette is to steal the croupier's chips when he's not looking." – Albert Einstein

Bets

"Scouting is a game, and it's a game for a big bet." – Robert Baden-Powell

"Everything must be put into the game and even sacrificed, so that Bohemia is preserved for me." – Maria Theresa

Statistics

"I only believe in the statistics that I have falsified myself." – Winston Churchill

"Three degrees of lies – lies, nasty lies, and statistics." – Benjamin Disraeli

"Politicians need statistics like a drunk needs a lamppost: neither illuminates anything, but it can be held onto." – Gerd Bosbach

Chess

"Playing chess teaches us never to lose courage just because our present position looks so bad." – Benjamin Franklin

"Life is like chess. We devise a plan, but it is conditioned by what our opponent intends in chess, in life fate." – Arthur Schopenhauer

Luck, Misfortune, Chance

"Luck is the only thing we can give without having it." – Mark Rutherford

"All the happiness in life depends on courage and work." – Blaise Pascal

"All the unhappiness of men comes from not knowing how to sit quietly in their room." – Blaise Pascal

"Chance helps those who are prepared for it." – Blaise Pascal

"Stick to the rule: don't despair in misfortune, don't believe in luck, and always keep in mind the possible whim of fate." – Seneca

"No pain is harder to bear than the memories of happiness in times of misfortune." – Dante Alighieri

"Expected happiness is the engine of human life." – Anton Semjonovich Makarenko

"No one is such a darling of fortune that he does not need a friend." – Seneca

"Fate crushes, fate raises, both the unfortunate and the fortunate, and what is to come, no one knows." – Sophocles

Life

"If I had an hour to master a problem on which my life depended, I would spend 40 minutes studying it, 15 minutes analyzing it, and 5 minutes solving it." – Albert Einstein

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." – Albert Einstein

"Good fortune gains friends, misfortune reliably tests them." – Seneca

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Based on the original Czech article: Citáty slavných lidí o hazardu, hraní, štěstí i životu.