{"id":1180,"date":"2016-05-13T09:38:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2016-05-13T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:38:29","slug":"Famous_Quotes_about_Gambling_33_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=1180","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes about Gambling (33 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Will Rogers<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.<\/div>\n
French Proverb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.<\/div>\n
George Bernard Shaw<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Mario Puzo<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.<\/div>\n
Damon Runyon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.<\/div>\n
Albert Einstein<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Lord Byron<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Charles Baudelaire<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.<\/div>\n
Joe E. Lewis<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.<\/div>\n
Joe Laurie Jr.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.<\/div>\n
George Washington<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Never bet on baseball.<\/div>\n
Pete Rose<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.<\/div>\n
Thomas Robert Dewar<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.<\/div>\n
American Proverb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Nothing is sacred to a gamester.<\/div>\n
Bernard Joseph Saurin<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
John Gay<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.<\/div>\n
Danny Mcgoorty<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.<\/div>\n
Oscar Wilde<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.<\/div>\n
Proverb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Samuel Johnson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Quotations 1 to 20 of 33<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNext ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLast<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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