Logo
Quote by Samuel Johnson
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an u

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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
great
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
good
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Gambling (Gaming)
category

Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. – Proverb

Category:
Gambling (Gaming)

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

Category:
Gambling (Gaming)

Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with. – Proverb

Category:
Gambling (Gaming)

I cant believe that God plays dice with the universe. – Albert Einstein

Category:
Gambling (Gaming)

Random Quotes

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. – G. K. Chesterton

Category:
Chastity

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself. – From a Winston advertisement

Category:
Prejudice

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Belief

Im not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Category:
Time