LUCK QUOTES V

quotations about luck

Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

LOUIS NIZER

attributed, Great Sayings and Quotations


What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

ROBERTSON DAVIES

What's Bred in the Bone

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Luck whines; labor whistles.

SAMUEL SMILES

Thrift

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Bad luck comes and goes ... but I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, "It's destiny!"

JEAN VAN HAMME

Dutch Connection


Watch out w'en you're gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck.

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

"Plantation Proverbs", Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings


Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging.

ENGLISH PROVERB

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Some folk want their luck buttered.

THOMAS HARDY

The Mayor of Castorbridge

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Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds.

IAN FLEMING

Casino Royale


A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Twelve Lectures to Young Men, on Various Important Subjects

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The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

EURIPIDES

The Suppliant Women

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A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.

MARGI PREUS

West of the Moon


The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

BIBLE

Ecclesiastes 9:11

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A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

AMBROSE BIERCE

"Epigrams of a Cynic"

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It's hard to detect good luck -- it looks so much like something you've earned.

FRANK A. CLARK

attributed, Quote Unquote


When ill luck falls asleep, let nobody wake her.

SPANISH PROVERB


So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.

WILLIAM MATHEWS

"Good and Bad Luck", Hints on Success in Life


Luck is a disease for which hard work is the only remedy.

ANONYMOUS

Paint, Oil and Drug Review, 1897


Good luck lies in odd numbers.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Merry Wives of Windsor

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For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A Moveable Feast


Luck's just another word for destiny ... either you make your own or you're screwed.

JOHN LE CARRÉ

The Mission Song

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