Quotes About Lottery

If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?

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

She shakes the blues off then she tries her luck Makes a little bet, hopes her horse comes up Pickin' pockets for some easy money 'Cause she blew the goddamn lot on the National Lottery Alabama 3, 'Mansion On The Hill' Album: La Peste, 2000

The legend that matrimony is a lottery has almost ruined the lottery business

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

Wybór, — mówimy sobie, — mamy wybór. Tak gÅ'upi potrafiÄ… by? tylko Å›miertelnicy. To tylko loteria — zabawa losu. —Adina Mercant, poeta (ur. 1832, zm. 1901)

The agreement was known as a tontine, an antique investment instrument, with origins in seventeenth-century Europe, in which a number of participants band together in what is effectively a mortality lottery, pooling their funds with an understanding that the last investor to die will win everything.

To a man who has not succeeded we say 'You made a mistake'. To a man who ha lost at the lottery, 'You had bad luck'.

We stayed with Jock's aunt and uncle, in their compound below the posh Malabar Hill. Jock's parents and two of his three brothers were there, having come to see if I was up to snuff. I wanted to have a long look at them all, too—the new family I'd won, as if in a lottery. On

They cast lots for each gate, according to their families, young and old alike.