In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there. – 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

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

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