Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all one thing; it is getting money without giving an equivalent for it. Ward Beecher.

Game is a civil gunpowder, in peace / Blowing up houses with their whole increase. Herbert.

[Greek: Gamein ho mellôn eis metanoian erchetai]—He 30 who is about to marry is on the way to repentance. Gr. Pr.

Games of chance are traps to catch school-boy novices and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. Cumberland.

Gaming finds a man a cully and leaves him a knave. T. Hughes.

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui; it is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment, but, like other stimuli, it produces indirect debility. Colton.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty. Marchioness d'Alembert.

Gammel Mands Sagn er sielden usand—An 35 old man's sayings are rarely untrue. Dan. Pr.

[Greek: Gamos gar anthrôpoisin euktaion kakon]—Marriage is an evil men are eager to embrace. Men.

Gang to bed wi' the lamb and rise wi' the laverock (lark). Sc. Pr.