Fran Lebowitz Quotes

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

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

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.

I guess if there weren't luck involved, I'd win 'em all.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.

Raffles are no fun.

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'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability.

What has six balls and screws Texans? The Texas Lottery.

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Time to toss the dice

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.