~ You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. ~
~ Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing. ~
~ The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling. ~
~ Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives. ~
~ In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win. ~
~ Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster ~
~ If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~