Quotes
Quotes about Luck
Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose--easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.
The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily.
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,--"With broad at nails."
As ill-luck would have it.
Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows,
And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close;
Why are we fond of toil and care?
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?
He had got death over with, then. He was, in a sense, lucky. Perhaps posthumous life was better than the real thing. Oh God, yes, I remember Enderby, what a man. Eater, drinker, wencher, and such exotic adventures. You could go on living without all the trouble of still being alive. Your character got blurred and mingled with those of other dead men, wittier, handsomer, themselves more vital now that they were dead. And there was oneâs work, good or bad, but still a death-cheater. It wasnât death that was the that was the trouble, of course, it was dying.
I saw children die at 3 days, and they were lucky, they had not grown to a day of hope
I'm white, okay, and that goes against me. I can't help being white. That's a matter of luck, good or bad
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
Your lucky number is 364958674928. Watch for it everywhere.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots.
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Luck never gives; it only lends.
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. - William Julius Mickle,
POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless Christmas dinner's dark and blue When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny Easter feasts are just bad luck When you see it from the viewpoint Of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.
luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity.
