quotations about luck
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
What's Bred in the Bone
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 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
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
Luck whines; labor whistles.
SAMUEL SMILES
Thrift
Some folk want their luck buttered.
THOMAS HARDY
The Mayor of Castorbridge
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
attributed, Quote Junkie: Philosophy Edition
Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging.
ENGLISH PROVERB
He that has the luck leads the bride to church.
DUTCH PROVERB
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
EURIPIDES
The Suppliant Women
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Twelve Lectures to Young Men, on Various Important Subjects
A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.
MARGI PREUS
West of the Moon
A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.
AURELIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Good luck lies in odd numbers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merry Wives of Windsor
When ill luck falls asleep, let nobody wake her.
SPANISH PROVERB
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 rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.
AMBROSE BIERCE
"Epigrams of a Cynic"
Luck is a disease for which hard work is the only remedy.
ANONYMOUS
Paint, Oil and Drug Review, 1897
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
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