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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.

Will Rogers

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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4

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

Albert Einstein

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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.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

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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.

Charles Baudelaire

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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.

Joe E. Lewis

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

George Washington

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9

Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

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10

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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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.

Samuel Johnson

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14

Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.

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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.

Gloria Steinem

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16

The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.

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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Sophocles

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18

The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce

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19

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Heywood Broun

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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.

Denis Diderot

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

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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

John Ruskin

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

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.

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

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

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.

Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.

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.

The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.

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

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

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.

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

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

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