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Quotes About Luck

Good looking and good luck rarely walk the same road.
~ Unknown
Never play with the Devil if you are afraid to shake the dice because you will never throw a six.
~ Unknown
I look back now with amazement at the small accidents that put certain books before me.
~ Unknown
Spero di avere un po' di fortuna con quel quadro dei mangiatori di patate.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Ah too fortunate farmers, if they knew their own good fortune!
~ Virgil
Audentis Fortuna iuvat. (Fortune assists the bold) also Fortune favors the bold.
~ Virgil
Fortune sides with him who dares.
~ Virgil
Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
~ Virginia Graham
Fortune, until now kind to me, begins to wear a frowning face.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
Tera (13) is a lucky number for Sikhs (though, as with other people who believe in God, luck should have no place in their thinking). Tera also means 'yours'.
~ Unknown
The world is such a dangerous place a man is lucky to get out alive.
~ W.C. Fields
Protect his house, His anxious house where days are counted From thunderbolt protect, From gradual ruin spreading like a stain; Converting number from vague to certain, Bring joy, bring day of his returning, Lucky with day approaching, with leaning dawn.
~ W.H. Auden
You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Skill is a function of chance. It's an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
~ Philip K. Dick
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
~ Unknown
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
~ Juvenal
Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character
~ William Hurt
There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.
~ William Gilmore Simms
Chance is a second master.
~ Pliny the Elder
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
~ George Eliot
There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.
~ Daniel Kahneman