All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.—Whately.
There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.—Chatfield.
I look upon every man as a suicide from the moment he takes the dice-box desperately in his hand; and all that follows in his fatal career from that time is only sharpening the dagger before he strikes it to his heart.—Cumberland.
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief.—Washington.
Generosity.—All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.—Mrs. Jameson.
He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.—Henry Taylor.
Generosity is only benevolence in practice.—Bishop Ken.
The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's great bribe.—Dryden.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.—South.
Some are unwisely liberal; and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.—Sir P. Sidney.