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Quotes about gambling
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. (George Washington)
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. (George Washington)
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. (George Washington)
No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner. (George Washington)
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. (George Washington)
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. (George Washington)
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry. (George Washington)
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. (George Washington)
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. (George Washington)
If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy. (George Washington)
The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life. (George Washington)
One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age. (George Washington)
Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with. (George Washington)
Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces. (George Washington)
Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse. (George Washington)
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. (George Washington)
Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. (George Washington)
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing. (George Washington)
Never bet on baseball. (George Washington)
I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against. (George Washington)
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet. (George Washington)
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor. (George Washington)
Nothing is sacred to a gamester. (George Washington)
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing. (George Washington)
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. (George Washington)
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