Gambling

(140 votes)   Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(134 votes)   Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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(130 votes)   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
1713-1784, French Philosopher

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(124 votes)   It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

George Washington
1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(113 votes)   Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

American Proverbs
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(112 votes)   Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.

French Proverbs
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(104 votes)   The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.

English Proverbs
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(101 votes)   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
1709-1784, British Author

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

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(100 votes)   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
1688-1732, British Playwright, Poet

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(91 votes)   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
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(88 votes)   Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.

Proverbs

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

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(80 votes)   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
1821-1867, French Poet

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(71 votes)   Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

Bernard Joseph Saurin
1706-1781, French Dramatist

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