Logo
Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. - Prover

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

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Gambling (Gaming)
category

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

Category:
Gambling (Gaming)

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

Category:
Gambling (Gaming)

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

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)

Random Quotes

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. – Camille Paglia

Category:
Women

Im not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently. – Justin Halpern

Category:
cool

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Success

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. – Cynthia Ozick

Category:
Armed Forces Day