Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

I'm fully confident that I will win the jackpot - so much so that I've already made a list of all the charities I will contribute to.

I would put my million dollars up as well.

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.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

What you are will show in what you do.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.

I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.

I am not a hypocrite.

I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

Don’t put yourself in a situation where you will not be able to achieve your ideals without violating them.

The Devil invented gambling.

The lottery is a tax on stupid people.

We must practice what we preach.

Lotteries are a tax on ignorance

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.