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Luck Quotes by Mark Twain
- The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one…
- It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
- Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!
- They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.
- A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won…
- All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
- Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
- Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does…
- Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to…
- Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he…
- Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
- Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
- I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to…
- There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
- When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
- I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps…
- My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody…
More Luck Quotes
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- Sometimes I still can't believe my luck. — David Bailey
- If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say… — Luis Bunuel
- Luck Is Not In Your Hands But Decision Is In Your Hands Luck Can't Make Your Decision, But Your Decision Can Make… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. — Oprah Winfrey
- Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are,… — Ed Bradley
- I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate. — Eric Clapton
- One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can… — Jesse Owens