A Quote by Sarah Josepha Hale

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well. — © Sarah Josepha Hale
It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.
The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.
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.
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
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.
I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.
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.
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.
An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.
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.
I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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.
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