Quotes & Sayings About Lottery Tickets

It is 23.32 p.m. I still believe in symmetry, so this will be the last part. You've reached an end if you come back to where you started. I also remain superstitious about certain numbers. I use 23 and 32 for my lottery tickets, for example. It extends to dates. I still see signs. — Olivia Sudjic

It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues It's just fake gold and plastic We crying for votes but how many of us is on the board Better yet, when's the last time you showed up and supported the NAACP Awards? — Nick Cannon

You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery. — Bill Cosby

So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular. — Eduard Hanslick

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well. — Sarah Josepha Hale

Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets. — Louise Hay

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets. — Napoleon Hill

The planet was filling up with good-looking young worldlings built entirely of opposites, canceling themselves out and- speaking as a bloke- leaving nothing you'd honestly want to go for a drink with. This new species of guys paired city shoes with backwoods beards. They played in bands but they worked in offices. They hated the rich but they bought lottery tickets, they laughed at comedies about the shittiness of lives that were based quite pointedly on their own, and worst of all they were so endlessly bloody gossipy. Every single thing they did, from unboxing a phone through to sleeping with his athlese, they had this compulsion to stick it online and see what everyone else thought. Their lives were a howling vacuum that sucked in attention. He didn't see how Zoe could ever find love with this new breed of men with cyclonic souls that sucked like Dysons and never needed their bag changed in order to keep on and on sucking. — Chris Cleave

You can never have too much money. — Jess C. Scott

Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide. — Mohsin Hamid

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life. — Laurence Sterne

An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. — Peter Lynch

We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan. — Atul Gawande

Hard work is great. It buys you more tickets to the luck lottery. — Steven David Levine

For you time-capsule types, MoPo was something called a convenience store, as in, 'The soda is conveniently located right next to the doughnuts and lottery tickets.' People who want to understand better how the human race was conquered so easily need to study those stores. Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, or weight-loss tips — Adam Rex

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

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible. — Jostein Gaarder

The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share. — Peter Lynch

If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. — Robert Kiyosaki

Virtually unable to attract new capital to the foundering enterprise, the company seized the next year on a novel approach to raising money to fund the embryonic British Empire: a lottery.
With the reluctant approval of King James and the Church of England, the Virginia Company sold lottery tickets to the public, discovering no shortage of gamers willing to hazard hard coinage for the chance to win the 01,000 grand prize, a fortune at a time when the typical working-class family scraped by on little more than a pound a month. Having begun as a corporation, Virginia had evolved into a gamblers' stake with a lively populist following back in England. — Bob Deans

If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader. — Steve Morse

Oh, I don't buy lottery tickets ... because if I won, and I was capable of that kind of odd luck, then I would also be equally capable of extremely bad luck, like getting struck by lightning, or falling out of window or something. I'd rather just not know. — Chrissi Sepe

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. — Douglas Coupland

You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it, — Luis Gonzalez

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

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax ... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize. — Thomas Jefferson

I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won! — Mitch Hedberg

Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket — Andy Gray

I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing. — Jimmy Carr

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. — Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

I've always said that it's like being the winner of three separate lottery tickets - getting a pilot, getting the pilot picked up, and having a show that actually lasts. — Rick Hoffman

People who buy lottery tickets are not people who are going to send their kids to college. — Kathy B. Steele

When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game. — Robert Haugen

It's like playing the lottery. It doesn't matter how extremely low the chances are of winning. You gotta be in it to win it. Hitting on every girl in sight is like buying a whole lot of lottery tickets. You never know, one day one of them might actually pay off. — Oliver Markus

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket. — Donald Barthelme

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you're never going to win big in a mutual fund. — Robert Kiyosaki