Quotes of Gaming - somelinesforyou

“ Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans. ”

- Timothy Pawlenty

“ Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling. ”

- Al Alvarez

“ I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal. ”

- Thierry Henry

“ If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. ”

- Paul Newman

“ The best throw with the dice is to throw them away. ”

- Unknown

“ There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Never bet on baseball. ”

- Pete Rose

“ All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. ”

- Edward Moore

“ 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

“ 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

“ Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. ”

- William Wycherley

“ Can you support the expense of a husband or hussy in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most? ”

- John Gay
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