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"Where is the sin? We bet. It has all been
passed down that there is a God. We bet
our life on it. We calculate the odds, the
return that we shall sit with the Saints in
Paradise. Our anxiety about our bet wakes
us before dawn in a cold sweat and God
sees us suffer. I cannot believe that such a
God, whose fundamental requirement of us
is that we gambler our mortal souls - it's
true that we everything on the fact of his
existence - I cannot believe that such a God can look unkindly on a chap wagering a few quid on the likelihood on a chap wagering a
few quid on the likelihood of a dumb animal crossing the line first, unless it might be
considered a blaspheme to apply to a common pleasure that which is divine. Shall we play?
Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
"The plate of the hunter, the gambler, and the fisherman is nine times empty and one time
full."
Cretan Proverb
"The Lottery, with its weekly payout of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which
the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for
whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their
delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant"
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
"The odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an
oncoming train"
Paul Dickson, Washingtonian
"When I was young, people called me a gambler. As the scale of my operations increased, I
became known as a speculator. Now I am called a banker. But I have been doing the same
thing all the time."
Sir Ernest Cassel, private banker to Edward VII
"A thousand meadows and cornfields are staked at every throw and as many villages are lost
as in the earthquake that overwhelmed Herculaneum and Pompeii."
Horace Walpole
"The greatest support for organised gambling once came from the bored and ill educated
aristocracy; it comes today from the bored and ill educated proletariat"
The Economist, 1947
"Son, no matter how far you travel, or how smart you get, always remember this: some day,
somewhere, a guy is going to come to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards,
and this guy is going to offer to bet you that the jack of spades will jump out this deck and
squirt cider in your ears. But son, do not bet him, for as sure as you do, you are going to get
an ear full of cider.'
Damon Runyon, The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown
"It was better betting with a decent feller. Now it's better betting with a mobile phone or a
computer."
Carl Chinn, bookmaker turned historian
"[Las Vegas] is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted"
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"In order to play high-stakes poker, you need to have a total disregard for money. The only
time you notice is when you run out"
Doyle Brunson, Gran-Daddy of poker.
"The knowledge of the character of our fellow citizens during play is a rack on which anger,
joy, greed, honesty and dishonesty are made clear"
Cardano, Liber de Ludo Aleae
"Racing without gambling is like dancing without sex"
Simon Barnes, sportswriter for The Times
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