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The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
-English Proverb
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Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
-Proverb
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There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
-Proverb
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Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.
-Proverb
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Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.
-Proverb
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Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
-Proverb
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-Anonymous
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There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.
-Anonymous
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
-Anonymous
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In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there.
-Anonymous
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
-W. H. Auden
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
-Ambrose Bierce
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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
-Heywood Broun
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Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
-William S. Burroughs
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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.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
-Chinese Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.
-Chinese Proverb
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No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
-Lord Thomas Dewar
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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.
-Denis Diderot
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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
-Albert Einstein
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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.
-John Gay
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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion. Over a large number of bets, the odds even out and we can makepredictions; that's why casino owners are so rich. But over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.
-Stephen Hawking
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The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
-Elbert Hubbard
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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.
-Samuel Johnson
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Books about Gambling (Gaming)
