Gamester Quotes

#1. It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#2. 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.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#4. In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were guilty of homicide, poison, or sacrilege, in which cases the marriage, as it should seem, might have been dissolved by the hand of the executioner.

Edward Gibbon

#5. 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

#6. I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.

George Edward Moore

#7. Lysimachus: Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at five or at seven?
Marina: Earlier too, sir, if now I be one.

William Shakespeare

#8. For this indiscretion Seneca relegates the emperor (Claudius) to a Sisyphean gamester's hell: condemned eternally to pick up the bones and thow them into a dice cup that has no bottom.

Ricky Jay

#9. Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

Bernard-Joseph Saurin

#10. A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

William Shakespeare

#12. Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

Samuel Johnson

#13. I am sure I do not know why a man should not be a gamester, if his talents make it an eligible profession for him!

Georgette Heyer

#14. Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

Henry Fielding

#15. Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Francis Quarles

#16. In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; there is bravery, youth, honor, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the eager fury of the gamester, and above all, intervals of hope.

Victor Hugo

#17. I think either party would have seen the wisdom in bailing out the American automobile industry, because one job in ten in the United States is either directly or indirectly connected to the automobile industry. You just could not let these companies go down.

Bob Lutz

#18. Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Immanuel Kant

#19. But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress ... a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all.

Charles Bukowski

#20. Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Adam Smith

#21. One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. Chopin has done for the piano what Schubert has done for the voice.

Frederic Chopin

#23. To know that every moment - regardless of how it comes wrapped - is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.

Guy Finley

#24. If it is possible, it is done. If it is impossible ... it will be done.

Evel Knievel

#25. It took every ounce of self-control I could muster to keep my eyes focused on my work and not on you the entire time. All I could see was the way your nose would shrivel slightly when you laughed... The longing in your eyes for a love like that of the bride and groom.

Janna Sproul