Gambling (Gaming)

The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. – English Proverb

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

There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing. – Proverb

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

Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces. – Proverb

Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse. – Proverb

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. – W. H. Auden

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. – Heywood Broun

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. – William S. Burroughs

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive — besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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

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

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

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

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. – Elbert Hubbard

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