Gaming is an enchanting witchery, gotten betwixt idleness and avarice; An itching disease, that makes some scratch the head, whilst others, as if they, were bitten by a Tarantula, are laughing themselves to death:
- Charles Cotton The Compleat Gamester 1674

Most people think that poker is a game. It isn’t, man. It’s work. You have to work at it like anything else and you get payoffs. You can’t just sit down and play. I go and think about the players and the game for a while and draw up a game plan. I don’t like to play long hours because I’m concentrating and figuring odds all the time. Hell, I work less hours a month than a doctor and I can take vacations any time I want to. This is what I want to do. This is my career.
- Anonymous poker player to writer D M Hayano 1977

It is a fine thing to get a peck or a bushel of gold by betting for it, the tremulous rapture of mingled hope and fear is almost compensation enough even if one loses. Next to the pleasure of winning is the pleasure of losing; only stagnation is unendurable.
- Hubert Howe Bancroft California Inter Pocula 1888 US historian

We’re encouraged to believe that it’s okay for the Lottery to rob us blind because so much of the money is going to good causes.
- Derek McGovern Racing Post 19 November 1994

Gambling is neither an immoral nor a noble exercise; it is motivated by both foolish and rational considerations.
- Alex Rubner author of Fringe Benefits: The Golden Chains 1962 and The Economics of Gambling 1966

If a man has a competent estate of his own, and plays whether himself or another man shall have it, it is extreme folly; if his estate be small, then to hazard the loss even of that and reduce himself to absolute beggary is direct madness. Besides, it has been generally observed, that the loss of one hundred pounds shall do you more prejudice in disquieting your mind that the gain of two hundred pounds shall do you good, were you sure to keep it.
- Anonymous The Nicker Nicked; or the cheats of Gaming Discovered 1669

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