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 losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life.
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.
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.
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