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Gambling: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones; Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.— BYRON — The Age of Bronze. St. 3.

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.— C. C. COLTON — Lacon. Reflection.

Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.— DAVID GARRICK — Prologue to Ed.

Moore's Gamester. Our Quixote bard sets out a monster taming. Arm'd at all points to fight that hydra, gaming.— DAVID GARRICK — Prologue to Ed.

Moore's Gamester. Shake off the shackles of this tyrant vice; Hear other calls than those of cards and dice: Be learn'd in nobler arts than arts of play; And other debts than those of honour pay.— DAVID GARRICK — Prologue to Ed.

Moore's Gamester.

Aleator quantum in arte melior tanto est nequior. The gambler is more wicked as he is a greater proficient in his art.— SYRUS — Maxims.