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Gambling

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure – two things most precious to the life of man. – Owen Felltham

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. – Chinese Proverb

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. – Author Unknown

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. – Will Rogers

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. – Bud Flanagan

Horse racing is animated roulette. – Roger Kahn

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. – Dan Bennett

A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time. – Author Unknown

The better the gambler, the worse the man. – Publilius Syrus

A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses. – Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1832

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away. – Author Unknown

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. – Author Unknown

Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due. – Richard Blackmore, The Jockey Club and its Founders, 1891

Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people. – W.C. Fields