“ The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. ”
- Heywood Broun- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet. ”
- Damon Runyon- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 1.4K
“ You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 3.6K
“ There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 1.8K
“ This isn't just rolling the dice - it's betting the whole house. ”
- Charles Schumer- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 64
“ Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical 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- Copy
- 2.9K
“ There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. ”
- Georges Pompidou- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope. ”
- William Bolitho- Copy
- 620
“ Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 4K
“ One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age. ”
- Danny McGoorty- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company. ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 307
“ I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points. ”
- Joe E. Lewis- Copy
- 476
“ Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people. ”
- W. C. Fields- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 449
“ The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
- 2.4K
“ It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. ”
- George Washington- Copy
- 3K
“ Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough. ”
- Rita Mae Brown- Copy
- 481
“ It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice. ”
- Jim Morrison- Copy
- 32
“ The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
- 1.4K
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