lottery quotes

Como te dec|a al principio, nadie hace nada y, naturalmente, soy yo,es elPresidente delaRep u blica elque lo tiene que hacer todo, aunque salga como el cohetero. Con decir que si no fuera por m | no existir|a la fortuna, ya que hasta de diosa ciega tengo que hacer en la loter|a. But, as I told you, nobody ever does a thing, and so naturally it is I, the President of the Republic, who has to do everything, and take all the blame as well.You might almost say that if it weren't for me Fortune wouldn't exist, as I have even to take the part of the blind goddess in the lottery.

- Miguel AŁ   ngel Asturias
  El sen‹  or presidente ( The President,1963), pt.3, ch.37.

If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi,'tisno matter whatthey think; theyare sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong: their judgement is a mere lottery.

-John Dryden
  An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben  Jonson Compared'.

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

-Willard Van Orman Quine
  Quiddities,'Gambling'.

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

- Cecil John Rhodes
Quoted in Peter Ustinov Dear Me (1977).This has also been attributed to Lord Milner.