Talk:Gambling

Unsourced

 * Capitalism is the joy of gambling.
 * Anonymous.


 * [Gambling] is a way of throwing money down the toilet without people calling you insane.
 * Anonymous.


 * [Gambling] is the sure way of getting nothing for something.
 * Wilson Mizner.


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


 * The lottery: a tax on people who flunked math.
 * Monique Lloyd.


 * The lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
 * A bumper sticker.


 * 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 indications.
 * Steele.


 * Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novices and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.
 * Cumberland.


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


 * There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.
 * Chatfield.


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


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


 * Gambling is possibly the only human vice where you can probably never persuade the gambler to bet that he'll give it up.
 * Franklin P. Jones.


 * A game of chance is a million to one.
 * Daniel Chan.


 * What the winner don't know, the gambler understands.
 * Heart, from the song, "Straight On".


 * Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock, and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. if it doesn't go up, don't buy it.
 * Will Rogers.