Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Luck.

The repository contains 18 quotes in the category “Luck.”

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I’ll be at the airport.

Charles M. Schulz
1922 — 2000

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Titus Livy
60? B.C. — 17

Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents that started to happen to somebody else.

Don Marquis
1878 — 1937

Luck is opportunity met by preparation -- and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.

Neal Boortz
1945 —     

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —     

Luck never gives; it only lends.

Proverb

If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have any luck at all.

Unknown

Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Oprah Winfrey
1954 —     

Luck is the residue of design.

Unknown

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Thomas Edison
1847 — 1931

I’d rather be lucky than good any day.

Unknown

You don’t need luck if you’re good.

Unknown

The sun don’t shine on the same dog’s ass all the time.

Catfish Hunter
1946 — 1999

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Andrew W. Mathis

Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.

R. E. Shay

Luck never gives; it only lends.

Swedish Proverb

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

Anatole France
1844 — 1924