Gambling Quotes

“Playing cards”

“Oh, this pernicious vice of gaming!”

“How, sir! not damn the sharper, but the dice?”

“Gambling is not a vice, if you can afford to do it.”

“Never put money down unless you're sure in advance you will win.”

“gambling”

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

“I enjoy gambling, I find ample opportunity in gambling to engage my mind and study.”

“When you're betting and you win, naturally you have that satisfaction, and the profit.”

“Wikipedia: Gambling”

“Our Quixote bard sets out a monster taming,
Arm'd at all points to fight that hydra, gaming.”

“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”

“That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.”

“Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones;
Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.”

“Look round, the wrecks of play behold;
Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold!
Their owners now to jails confin'd,
Show equal poverty of mind.”

“Ay, rail at gaming—'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city—you'll find a congregation in every tavern.”

“The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.”

“People think I'm a gambler. I've never gambled in my life. To me, a gambler is someone who plays slot machines. I prefer to own slot machines. It's a very good business being the house.”

“Shake off the shackles of this tyrant vice;
Hear other calls than those of cards and dice:
Be learn'd in nobler arts than arts of play;
And other debts than those of honour pay.”

“Gambling is risk-taking. It might be said the owner of a casino gambles, takes risks, but he has the odds in his favour, so that's intelligent gambling. If I wanted to gamble, I'd buy the casino.”