Luck Quotes
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.Author Unknown
Old birds are hard to pluck.German prove
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.Joesph Heller, Catch - 22
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?Rothschild
I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it.Sylvia Plath, The Bell Ja
Good luck beats early rising.Irish Prove
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.James A. Garfield
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass".
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident - - The luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.Edward C. Banfield
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.Abraham Lincoln
The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblowe
A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.Unknown
Ill - Luck, you know, seldom comes alone.Miguel de Cervantes
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.Thomas Carlyle
The harder I work, the luckier I get.Samuel Goldwyn
What luck for rulers that men do not think.Adolf Hitle
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.Neil Peart
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.G. K. Chesterton
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.Babe Didrikson
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.Charlotte Whitton
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Stephen Butler Leacock
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Gerald
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.Coleman Cox
As ill - Luck would have it.Miguel de Cervantes
Care and diligence bring luck.Thomas Fulle
He who does not venture has no luck.Mexican Prove
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.Jean Baptiste Colbert
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.Signs
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.Ogden Nash
Go and wake up your luck.Persian Prove
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.John Dewey
Happiness is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.Robertson Davies
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.The Talmud
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.Chinese Prove
Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.Erica Jong
