quotations about luck
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
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
EURIPIDES
The Suppliant Women
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
attributed, Quote Junkie: Philosophy Edition
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
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
Good luck lies in odd numbers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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
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"
A sharp eye is the mother of good luck.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
When ill luck falls asleep, let nobody wake her.
SPANISH PROVERB
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
OG MANDINO
attributed, Secrets of Lucky People: A Study of the Laws of Good Luck