Quotes About Luck

not being either philosophers17 to understand the reason, or mathematicians enough to calculate the powers and to proportion the parts, very luckily by accident found what they sought for.

The discovery of the power of injected water was luck; understanding and exploiting it was anything but. Newcomen and Calley replaced18 the accidental hole in the cylinder with an injection valve, and, ingeniously, attached it to the piston itself.

I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratched.

I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!

One out of suits with fortune.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

I bear a charmed life.

As good luck would have it.

The fact of the matter is, I've been lucky enough to have life say "yes" to me, time and time again. Perhaps there's no way to control anything. Perhaps the best thing to do is work hard, hold on, and enjoy the view.

On the seventh hourOn the seventh dayOn the seventh monthThe seventh doctor sayHe was born for good luckAnd that you'll seeI got seven hundred dollarsDon't you mess with me

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.

Your chances of winnin' the lottery get a lot better if you buy a ticket.

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating.

Era obvio que no se iba a quedar, y si de pura suerte se quedaba iba a acabar odiándome. Te digo que los tipos decentes no me van. Les traigo mala suerte.

Xinran, do you know that it is the really bad women who are the lucky ones? I believe the saying "Money makes men bad; badness makes women money.

La chance nous sourit tous les matins, le bonheur nous accueille tous les soirs, et on s'en rend pas compte. On s'y habitue et on pense que ce sera tous les jours ainsi. On fait pas gaffe à ce que l'on possède puis, hop ! D'un claquement de doigts, on s'aperçoit que l'on a tout faux. Parce qu'on croit avoir décroché la lune, on veut croquer le soleil aussi, et c'est là que l'on se crame les ailes

What a stroke of good luck to be harvesting the fruits of a life once well lived.

It's like Russian Roulette, one in six'll kill you.