The Sure Way to Get Nothing for Something

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Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. – Wilson Mizner




Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables, “Do not try.”



A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope. – William Bolitho



Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster. – Yugoslav Proverb



Gaming is the son of avarice, and the father of dispair. – French proverb



Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. – George Washington

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The Small Man Thinks of Comfort

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There is a vast difference between understanding something well enough to buy it as opposed to understanding it well enough to sell it. - Zig Zigler

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused. – Walter Mondale

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. – George Washington

A man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. – Niccolo Machiavelli

If you give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men, I will find something in them with which to hand him. – Armand Jean du Plessis

The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort. – Confucius

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Contracting New Debts is not the way to Pay Old Debts

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When politicians come up with a solution to your problem, you have two problems. – J. Kesner Kahn

The chief cause of problems is solutions. – Eric Sevareid

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Thomas Fuller

Properly used a pencil can be one of the most effective weapons against procrastination. – Edward C. Bliss

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. – Bible, Proverbs 13:12

If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time. – Elbert Hubbard

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones. – George Washington

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