| Someone
once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men
do, and I gave the common-sensical 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
The
best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
English Proverb
One
should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
There
is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power
of circumstance is more evident.
Benjamin Disraeli
Life
is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you
would not take it.
Tom Stoppard
No
wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady
winner.
Thomas Robert Dewar
There
are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning
and that of losing.
French Proverb
The
losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the
cheating lottery of life.
Le Sage
One
of the worst things that can happen to you in life is
to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
Danny Mcgoorty
He
was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled
simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to
war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a
loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
Mario Puzo
The
race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the
strong, but that is the way to bet.
Damon Runyon
Following
the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
Elbert Hubbard
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
The
urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable
that I assume it must be evil.
Heywood Broun
If
you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer,
but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.
Joe Laurie Jr
Traveling
is like gambling: it is always connected with winning
and losing, and generally where it is least expected
we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Smith
and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.
American Proverb
Nobody
has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
American Proverb
Italians
come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling,
and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII
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