Gambling Quotes
These are some of the best 'Gambling' quotations and sayings.
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All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of others, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.
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Although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice, or a deficiency of excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, patriotism, or virtue.
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An assembly of the states or a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth, or distinctions.
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Bets, at the first, were fool-traps, where the wise, like spiders, lay in ambush for the flies.
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By gambling we lose both our time and treasure, two things most precious to the life of man.
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Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, who ventures life and soul upon the dice.
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Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants and their nearest relatives.
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Gambling is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
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Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
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Gambling, in all countries, is the vice of the aristocracy. - The young find it established in the best circles, and enticed by the habits of others they are ruined when the habit becomes their own.
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If thou desire to raise thy fortunes by the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late. - What thou winnest, is prodigally spent. - What thou losest, is prodigally lost. - It is an evil trade that prodigality drives, and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.
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It [gaming] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
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It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to gamble; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
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Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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Play not for gain, but sport; who plays for more than he can lose with pleasure stakes his heart.
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Sports and gaming, whether pursued from a desire of gain or the love of pleasure, are as ruinous to the temper and disposition of the one addicted to them, as they are to his fame and fortune.
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The best throw with the dice is to throw them away.
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