Able Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them...

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

— Timothy Zahn

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

— George Pell

Foolish people have fool's luck.

— Anonymous

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

— Frank Wedekind

“There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and…

— Joe Abercrombie

“What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Wiseman speculated that what we call luck is actually a pattern of behaviors that coincide with a style of understanding and interacting with the…

— David McRaney