Quote by Denis Diderot
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the e

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

Other quotes by Denis Diderot

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Knowledge
Read Quote

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Health
Read Quote

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Tyranny
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Gambling (Gaming)
category

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

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

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

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

Random Quotes

Wag more. Bark less. – Author Unknown

Category:
Attitude

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else. – John Wooden

Category:
Change

Sobriety is either the love of health, or an incapacity for debauch. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

Category:
Alcohol

In my old age Ive come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself. – Bijou Phillips

Category:
respect