quotations about luck
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
What's Bred in the Bone
Luck whines; labor whistles.
SAMUEL SMILES
Thrift
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
Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging.
ENGLISH PROVERB
You never know your luck till the wheel stops.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
attributed, Quote Junkie: Philosophy Edition
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
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
He that has the luck leads the bride to church.
DUTCH PROVERB
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
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 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
A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.
MARGI PREUS
West of the Moon
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
If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.
FELIX DENNIS
How to Get Rich