Luck Quotes
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.Christopher Isherwood
I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Stephen Butler Leacock
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
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
It is bad luck to be superstitious.Andrew W. Mathis
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.D. H. Lawrence
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Go and wake up your luck.Persian Prove
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
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Baldwin
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003
The harder you work, the luckier you get.Plato
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
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".
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
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.John Hay
Old birds are hard to pluck.German prove
The harder I work, the luckier I get.Samuel Goldwyn
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Arthur Baldwin
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
Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.Author Unknown
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Gerald
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
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
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Benjamin Franklin
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.Charlotte Whitton
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.Peggy Noonan
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.Robert A. Heinlein
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.Chinese Prove
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.G. K. Chesterton
And thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit - - Such are the just grounds for the regrets I have...D. A. F. Sade, "Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man".
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.Seneca
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.Thomas Jefferson
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
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.Denis Watley
