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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.

Gambling

Wentworth Dillon

PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

4.8 · 51 votes

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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.

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George Bernard Shaw

WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

3.8 · 58 votes · 177 reads

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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.

Albert Einstein

PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

4.4 · 60 votes

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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 longe

Gambling

PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

3.7 · 41 votes

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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 mi

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Charles Baudelaire

PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

4.7 · 61 votes

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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

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George Washington

PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

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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.

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PoetEnglish1685 · 17th century

3.9 · 21 votes · 115 reads

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One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.

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PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

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Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.

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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.

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AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

4.8 · 20 votes · 138 reads

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The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
English proverb
English
3.3 · 61 votes · 110 reads
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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Socrates
PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC
3.0 · 35 votes · 118 reads
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The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century
3.3 · 48 votes · 184 reads
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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
PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century
4.6 · 56 votes · 108 reads
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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.
Norman Vincent Peale
AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century
3.3 · 46 votes · 34 reads
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbour.
John Ruskin
WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century
4.6 · 35 votes · 155 reads
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