A Quote by Abraham Cowley

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Abraham Cowley

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Blanks Cheating Fortune Hope Hundred Lottery Prize

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Abraham Cowley
English - Poet
1618 - July 28, 1667

As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.

Daniel Defoe

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

George Colman the Elder

In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

John Vanbrugh

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

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

Cecil Rhodes

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

Cecil Rhodes

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

Jeff Bezos

The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.

Catherine O'Hara

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

Nick Harkaway

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

Cheating is cheating. Some coaches believe if you can get away with it, cheating is smart. I have no respect for those guys.

Steve Spurrier

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled.

Charlie Hunter

If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.