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

Broun, Heywood on Gambling
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"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
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"No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner."

Dewar, Thomas Robert on Gambling
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel."

Hubbard, Elbert on Gambling
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"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
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"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
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"The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life."

Le Sage on Gambling
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"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
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"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
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"Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with."

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

Proverb, American on Gambling
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"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
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"Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair."

Proverb, French on Gambling
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"There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing."

Proverb, French on Gambling
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"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
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"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
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"Never bet on baseball."

Rose, Pete on Gambling
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"I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against."

Runyon, Damon on Gambling
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