More Famous Casino Quotes

• GAMBLING is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
  French Proverb 
• Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, GAMBLING, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
  George Bernard Shaw
• It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
  George Washington
• 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
• 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 urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
  Heywood Broun 
• I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
  Joe E. Lewis
• 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 
• Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.
  John Gay 
• If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.
  Joe Laurie Jr
• 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.
  George Bernard Shaw