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Quotes about Gambling


The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce [The Devil's Dictionary]

Gambling, eating meat, wine- bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving, debauchery - these seven things in this world lead to the hells.

Sanskrit Shloka

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

Unknown

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Lord Thomas Robert Dewar

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

George Bernard Shaw

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Benjamin Tillett

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Georges Pompidou

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