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Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be read more
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to
meet it.
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to
meet it.
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for
the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was read more
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for
the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected
works of Francis Bacon.
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
[Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
[Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed,
And fight maliciously; for when mine hours
Were nice and lucky, read more
I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed,
And fight maliciously; for when mine hours
Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives
Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth
And send to darkness all that stop me.
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.