luck quotes

Homage to plain dumb luck.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
Of the effectiveness of the US blockade of Soviet ships bringing missiles to Cuba. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).

Cricket is a game of the most terrifying stresses with more luck about it than any other game I know. They call it a team game, but in fact it is the loneliest game of all.

-Aristotle
Another Word from  Arlott.

The deil cam fiddlin thro'the town, And danc'd awa wi' th' Exciseman; And ilka wife cries, auld Mahoun, I wish you luck o'the prize, man!

- Robert Burns
  'The Deil's awa wi' th' Exciseman', stanza1.

Just don't get too complicated Eddie.When a guy gets too complicated he's unhappy. And when he's unhappyhis luck runs out.

- Raymond Chandler
  The Blue Dahlia.

   I have never accepted what many people have kindly saidthat I inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race living around theglobe that had the lion heart.I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
  Speech to both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall, Nov, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

This island rock in space turns flowering endlessly To peaks of cloud still mounting where you took Your last high passage and your faltering luck.

-Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero
  'Elegy for Kurt Porjescz, Missing in  Action,1  April,1945'.

Whena manisdownonhisluck heseemsto consumeall he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

- Robertson Davies
  Fifth Business, pt.4, ch.1.

Watch out w'en you'er gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck.

-Joel Chandler Harris
  Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings,'Plantation Proverbs'.

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
  For Whom  the Bell Tolls, ch.30.

But Oedipus he had the luck For when he hit the ground He bounced up like a jackinabox And knocked his Daddy down.

-Ted (Edward James) Hughes
  'Song for a Phallus'.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

- Ray(mond) A Kroc
  Quoted by Penny Moser 'The McDonald's Mystique', in Fortune, 4  Jul.

There issuch a thing as luck.There issuch a thing as a run of luck. This is an instructive insight I have gained from pokerthat all things have a rhythm, even the most seemingly inanimate of statistics.

- David Alan Mamet
  Writing in Restaurants,'Things I Have Learned Playing Poker On The Hill'.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

-Myles na Gopaleen
  Do WhatYou Will, pt.2, ch.15.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet One perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get One perfect rose.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
  Not So Deep as AWell,'One Perfect Rose'.

Wish me luck, as you wave me goodbye Cheerio, here I go, on my way.

- Harry Parr-Davies
  Sung by Gracie Fields in Shipyard Sally.

   Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat dangerous Dan McGrew, And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.

- Robert William Service
  Songs of a Sourdough,'The Shooting of Dan McGrew'.

The only thing you have to worry about is bad luck. I never had bad luck.

- Harry S Truman
  After an assassination attempt,1 Nov.

John Bull has gone to India And all must pay him heed For histories are there to prove That none of another breed Has had a like inheritance, Or sucked such milk as he, And there's no luck about a house If it lacks honesty. The ghost of Roger Casement Is beating on the door.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'The Ghost of Roger Casement', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).