Quotes of Lottery - somelinesforyou

“ Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. ”

- Dick Gephardt

“ Last few months I've been living with this couple, yeah, you know the kind who buy everything in doubles, I love their love and I am thankful, that someone has actually recieved the prize that was promised, by all those fairy tales that drugged us, but still to me I'm sick lonely, no laurel tree, just green envy will my number come up eventually, like love's some kind of lottery where you scratch and see what's underneath Its' sorry, just one cherry, I'll play again get lucky. ”

- Conor Oberst

“ There are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival. ”

- John Cory

“ Congress: Bingo with billions. ”

- Red Skelton

“ George W. Bush even stopped in Pennsylvania to try his hand at the lotto and gave up when he could only think of the numbers 4 and 17. ”

- Craig Kilborn

“ I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ The way I figure it, you've got the same chance of winning the lottery whether you buy a ticket or not. ”

- Fran Liebowicz

“ I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. ”

- Roger Jones

“ The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck. ”

- Bob Goodlatte

“ I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never — they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it. ”

- Eva Braun

“ Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent. ”

- Vicki Baum

“ Venture upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. ”

- Adam Smith

“ The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life. ”

- Unknown

“ Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. ”

- F. M. Knowles

“ Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. ”

- Madame De Rieux

“ I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. ”

- Queen Victoria

“ All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise. ”

- Lord Byron

“ The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math. ”

- Isarel Gallegos

“ I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not. ”

- Fran Lebowitz
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