Category Archives: GAMBLING
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900; Irish writer and poet)
After dice throwing and card playing, disputes must arise about paying.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it. – Henry Ward Beecher
By gaming we lose both our time and treasure: two things most precious to the life of man.
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.
― Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s Schooldays
“In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion which I had inherited from my father himself—all of which my father thought I had better rid myself of before I married.”
― Isak Dinesen
In my life, I’ve learned when to let shit go and when to fight. This, babe, what we got, I’ll fight for.
When luck offers a finger one must take the whole hand.
Life.
The waves were fury; to be consumed by the possible
meant simply to be lucky, even in love.© 2004, Luke Davies
WHO KEEPS COMPANY WITH A WOLF LEARNS TO HOWL.
“The Antiquity of Proverbs: Fifty Familiar Proverbs and Folk Sayings with Annotations and Lists …”
“This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly – with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.” Paul Auster, “The Music of Chance” (1990)
http://www.casinos.net/gambling-quotes-proverbs-sayings.htm
foto – izzy foreal and William white aka billy james at raleigh 2010
"*The world’s a lottery,* cries the losing gamester; and he that wins one while, perhaps, may have nothing to brag of at the foot of the account. The tables may turn again, and then he must come off a loser, notwithstanding all his former lucky hits. " Oswald Dykes.
"Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms, Phrases and Other …"
The chickens don’t brag about their own soup. (Marti nique Creole).
foto – sunrise at raleigh 2010
A gambler never makes the same mistake twice. It’s usually three or more times. VP Pappy
A drunken night makes a cloudy morning. Danish .
ty Special Dictionary
In Martin’s Bar the topless waitresses
are all sober, their perfectly matched tits
jump at the drunks while upstairs
a poet listens to the race results.
foto – izzy foreal considering dec 2008 bilambil.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. George Eliot (1819-1880)
Gaming is the son of avarice, and the father of despair.
"The Cyclopaedia of Practical Quotations, English and Latin: With an Appendix Containing Proverbs …"
foto – bell in coldstream street 2009