Top 23 Lotteries Quotes
#2. The system was elementary, as you can see. Naturally these "lotteries" failed. Their moral virtue was nil. They were not directed at all of man's faculties, but only at hope.
Jorge Luis Borges
#4. All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#5. That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
Adam Smith
#6. I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.
Daniel Tammet
#7. I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.
Roger Jones
#8. There was no denying Lisa always looked great. She was like one of those houses the hospital lotteries were always giving away, made up so perfectly you couldn't help but want it. Jayne on the other hand...well, Jayne wasn't anything like a shiny new house.
She was home.
Laura Drewry
#9. In Las Vegas we all know that it's the croupiers who win. At the race track, it's those who control the handle who win. State lotteries, does anybody think the participants in the lottery win? No. The state wins.
John C. Bogle
#10. I guess it was hard for him to look at the logic behind the draft lotteries, because that same logic had taken away his father. And, anyway, what's so logical about the day you were born deciding when you might die? That's just a cruel joke, as I see it.
A.S. King
#11. I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.
Steve Martin
#12. Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational
things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the
principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Scott Adams
#13. It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.
Gretchen Rubin
#14. It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.
Stephen Colbert
#15. Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.
Claudia Emerson
#16. Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,
Alexandre Dumas
#17. There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.
Robert Foster Bennett
#18. The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
Samuel Johnson
#19. Once Sally gets an idea in her head, there's not much room for too much else ...
Mira Grant
#20. The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
Margaret Millar
#21. Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."
Paulo Coelho
#22. People always say that they want to understand so that they can believe. But in MY reality it's just the opposite. I believe because I DON'T understand. I HAVE to believe, because there's no other way to explain what I'm seeing, feeling, or experiencing.
Sean Patrick Flanery
#23. The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does, even if you murdered or robbed, ya it's wrong, but God loves, take one step toward him he'll take two toward you, even when all else fails, God'll support you
Nas
