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
God is a father; luck is a stepfather.
YIDDISH PROVERB
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
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
attributed, Quote Junkie: Philosophy Edition
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
You never know your luck till the wheel stops.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
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 is a disease for which hard work is the only remedy.
ANONYMOUS
Paint, Oil and Drug Review, 1897
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
Good luck lies in odd numbers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.
AURELIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
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 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
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