Quote: The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. Author: Heywood Broun 1888-1939, American Journalist, Novelist
Quote: 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. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner. Author: Thomas Robert Dewar
Quote: 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. Author: Denis Diderot 1713-1784, French Philosopher
Quote: I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: 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. Author: John Gay 1688-1732, British Playwright, Poet
Quote: Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: 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. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy. Author: Joe Laurie Jr.
Quote: The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life. Author: Le Sage
Quote: I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points. Author: Joe E. Lewis American Writer
Quote: One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age. Author: Danny Mcgoorty
Quote: Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with. Author: Proverb
Quote: Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse. Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces. Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: 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. Author: Mario Puzo 1920-, American Novelist
Quote: 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. Author: Will Rogers 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor
Quote: Never bet on baseball. Author: Pete Rose 1942-, American Baseball Player, Manager
Quote: I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against. Author: Damon Runyon 1884-1946, American Writer, Journalist
Quote: The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet. Author: Damon Runyon 1884-1946, American Writer, Journalist
Quote: You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: Nothing is sacred to a gamester. Author: Bernard Joseph Saurin 1706-1781, French Dramatist
Quote: Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. Author: Sophocles BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: 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. Author: Gloria Steinem 1934-, American Feminist Writer, Editor
Quote: It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. Author: George Washington 1732-1799, First President of the USA
Quote: One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit