Quotes About Superstition

Good luck lies in odd numbers.

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

There's luck in odd numbers.

I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth

Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

just as readily as it is by the positives. THE SEVEN MAJOR NEGATIVE EMOTIONS The emotion of anger (quick and transitory) The emotion of fear (prominent and easily discernible) The emotion of greed (subtle and persistent) The emotion of jealousy (impulsive and spasmodic) The emotion of revenge (subtle and quiet) The emotion of hatred (subtle and persistent) The emotion of superstition (subtle and slow)

On the one hand, I try to define myself and behave officially as a no-nonsense hyperrealist ferreting out the role of chance; on the other, I have no qualms indulging in all manner of personal superstitions. Where do I draw the line? The answer is aesthetics.

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An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

Well, as a kid I did all the Bloody Mary games and using a mirror to scare yourself.

There's no place like Henderson, said he, with complacent and annoying fidelity, referring to that haven of enervation, red clay, ignorance, slander, and superstition, in whose effluent rays he had been tested.

The things they carried were determined to some extent by superstition.

My whole education was to make sure I didn't believe things like that. I dismissed all sorts of things that were indigenous in my family -- superstition and discredited information, and that discredited way of knowing that discredited people always have. But when I began to write, that was the place where I had to go. That's where the information was.

Cook, judging from his journals, was not a pious man. A product of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, he valued reason above all else, and showed little patience for what he called "Priest craft" and "superstition.