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"I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card."

Baudelaire, Charles on gambling
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"The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling."

Bierce, Ambrose on gambling    Share

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

Broun, Heywood on gambling    Share

"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."

Byron, Lord on gambling    Share

"No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner."

Dewar, Thomas Robert on gambling    Share

"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."

Diderot, Denis on gambling    Share

"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."

Einstein, Albert on gambling
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"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."

Gay, John on gambling    Share

"Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry."

Goldsmith, Oliver on gambling    Share

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

Hubbard, Elbert on gambling    Share

"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."

Johnson, Samuel on gambling    Share

"If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy."

Laurie Jr., Joe on gambling    Share

"The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life."

Le Sage on gambling    Share

"I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points."

Lewis, Joe E. on gambling    Share

"One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age."

Mcgoorty, Danny on gambling    Share

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

Proverb on gambling    Share

"Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces."

Proverb, American on gambling    Share

"Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse."

Proverb, American on gambling
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"The best throw of the dice is to throw them away."

Proverb, English on gambling    Share

"Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair."

Proverb, French on gambling    Share

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

Proverb, French on gambling    Share

"He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse."

Puzo, Mario on gambling    Share

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

Rogers, Will on gambling    Share

"Never bet on baseball."

Rose, Pete on gambling    Share

"I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against."

Runyon, Damon on gambling    Share

"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet."

Runyon, Damon on gambling    Share

"You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor."

Ruskin, John on gambling    Share

"Nothing is sacred to a gamester."

Saurin, Bernard Joseph on gambling    Share

"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing."

Shaw, George Bernard on gambling    Share

"The dice of Zeus always fall luckily."

Sophocles on gambling    Share

"Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage."

Steinem, Gloria on gambling    Share

"It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief."

Washington, George on gambling    Share

"One should always play fair when one has the winning cards."

Wilde, Oscar on gambling
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