An old man turned ninety-eight He won the lottery and died the next day It's a black fly in your Chardonnay It's a death row pardon two minutes too late It's a traffic jam when you're already late It's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife It's meeting the man of my dreams And then meeting his beautiful wife.
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The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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This is what I'm here to do and I'm very excited, ... It's been busy, busier than normal with the lottery and the draft, so it's going to be nice to get into a routine and get on the ice every day. That's the fun part.
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The Lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.
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It's been suggested that if the supernaturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?
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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
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All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.
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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.
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Life is a random lottery of meaningless tragedies and a series of near escapes.
So, I sit here and I smoke my camel straits.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life.
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Here's something to think about How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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