quotations about luck
Some folk want their luck buttered.
THOMAS HARDY
The Mayor of Castorbridge
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
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
EURIPIDES
The Suppliant Women
Luck whines; labor whistles.
SAMUEL SMILES
Thrift
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
GARRISON KEILLOR
Lake Wobegon Days
Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.
PATRICK DEWITT
The Sisters Brothers
I broke a mirror in my house. I'm supposed to get seven years of bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
STEVEN WRIGHT
stand-up routine
You never know your luck till the wheel stops.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
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
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more of it I have.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Leacock on Life
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Twelve Lectures to Young Men, on Various Important Subjects
Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging.
ENGLISH PROVERB
A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.
AURELIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.
MARGI PREUS
West of the Moon
He that has the luck leads the bride to church.
DUTCH PROVERB
A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.
AMBROSE BIERCE
"Epigrams of a Cynic"
When ill luck falls asleep, let nobody wake her.
SPANISH PROVERB
A sharp eye is the mother of good luck.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
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