quotations about gambling
The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.
REBECCA WEST
The Thinking Reed
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.
GLORIA STEINEM
attributed, Quote Unquote
Gambling makes the mind burn. Can this be turned into the fire of purification and understanding?
MIRON STABINSKY & JEREMY SILMAN
Zen and the Art of Casino Gambling
A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses.
CHARLES LAMB
Essays of Elia