Adventure 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

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
Peter Lynch

Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.
Brian Koslow

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
Bill Watterson

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
Jay Leno

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
Brian May

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz

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

I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
Jack Whittaker

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

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.
Jane D. Hull

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Doug Coupland

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Joseph Lancaster

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
Poppy Z. Brite

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.
Linford Christie

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
Bianca Jagger

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

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.
James Payn

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