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Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction
Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction
Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth
for he magnetizes to your home those read more
Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth
for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.
(typo corrected).
When God throws the dice are loaded.
When God throws the dice are loaded.
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.
Away; go. They say there is read more
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.
Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in
nativity, chance, or death.
A farmer travelling with his load
Picked up a horseshoe on the road,
And nailed if fast read more
A farmer travelling with his load
Picked up a horseshoe on the road,
And nailed if fast to his barn door,
That luck might down upon him pour;
That every blessing known in life
Might crown his homestead and his wife,
And never any kind of harm
Descend upon his growing farm.
As they who make
Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
As they who make
Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth
The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth
The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives
intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her read more
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives
intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's
wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.