Luck Quotes

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 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

If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.

Assyrian Prove

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".

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

Author Unknown

Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.

Douglas Jerrold

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

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

Care and diligence bring luck.

Thomas Fulle

Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.

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Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Wystan Hugh Auden

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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 what you have left over after you give 100%.

Langston Coleman

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

American Prove

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

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Richard Jeni

Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.

Office Space

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Samuel Smiles

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

As ill - Luck would have it.

Miguel de Cervantes

A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.

Unknown

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Arthur Baldwin

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".

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.

Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955

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

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