Gambling Quotes

There are two great pleasures in gambling; that of winning and that of losing.

French proverb.

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

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

George Washington (1732-1799) American president.

No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner.

Lord Dewar (1864-1930) British writer.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

Elbert Hubbard (1865-1915) American author.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one’s flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not the will.

Rebecca West (1892-1983) British author.

Death and dice level all distinctions.

Samuel Foote (1720-1777) English dramatist.

Gambling is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Colton.

Gambling is a kind of tacit confession that those engaged therein do, in general, exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes; and therefore they cast lots to determine on whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

Blackstone.

Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all one thing; it is getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

H.W. Beecher.

By gambling we lose both our time and treasure, two things most precious to the life of man.

Feltham.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to gamble; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

Lavater.

Some play for gain; to pass time others play; both play the fool; who gets by play is loser in the end.

Heath.

I look upon every man as a suicide from the moment he takes the dice box desperately in his hand. All that follows in his fatal career, from that time, is only sharpening the dagger before he strikes it to his heart.

Cumberland.

Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

Horace.

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined; he adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide renounces earth to forfeit heaven.

Colton.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of others, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Whately.

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

Franklin.

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

Washington.

Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square if ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants and their nearest relatives.

Zimmermann.

There is nothing that wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card table, and those cutting passions which naturally attend them. Hollow eyes, haggard looks, and pale complexions are the natural indication of a female gamester. Her morning sleeps are not able to repay her midnight watchings.

Steele.

Although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice, or a deficiency of excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, patriotism, or virtue.

Landor.

An assembly of the states or a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and gave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth, or distinctions.

Bruyere.