GAMBLING

Related Subjects: Adventure, Amusement, Cards, Chance, Dice, Luck, Risk, Sport

1. The gambling passion lurks . . . at the bottom of every heart, be it a girl's heart, a provincial's, a diplomatist's; everybody longs to have money without working for it; you may hedge the desire about with restrictions, but the gambling mania immediately breaks out in another form.—BALZAC, The Firm of Nucingen
   

2. Gaming is a principle inherent in human nature.—BURKE
   

3. For most men (till by losing rendered sager)
   Will back their own opinions by a wager.—BYRON, Beppo
   

4. Death and the dice level all distinctions.—SAMUEL FOOTE, The Minor
   

5. Could fools to keep their own contrive,
   On what, on whom could gamesters thrive?—JOHN GAY, Fables
   

6. The strength of Monaco is the weakness of the world.—HERBERT A. GIBBONS, Riviera Towns
   

7. Play not for gain but sport. Who plays for more
   Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart,—
   Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.—GEORGE HERBERT, The Church-Porch
   

8. Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.—DEAN INGE
   

9. Gie o'er when the play is gude.—Proverb
   

10. A wager is a fool's argument.—Proverb
    

11. The devil is in the dice.—Proverb
    

12. The most patient man in loss, the most coldest that ever turned up ace.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

13. Were it good
    To set the exact wealth of all our states
    All at one cast? to set so rich a main
    On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

14. A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail
    his luck.—SOPHOCLES
    

15. If there were two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.—MARK TWAIN, The Jumping Frog
    

16. And once or twice to throw the dice
    Is a gentlemanly game,
    But he does not win who plays with Sin
    In the secret House of Shame.—OSCAR WILDE, The Ballad of Reading Gaol