Quotes About Superstition

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did.

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.

He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.

I don't think carrying an umbrella during monsoons is luck.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!

The worst cynicism a belief in luck.

I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all.

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Bud's relationship with the female sex was governed by a gallimaufry of primal impulses, dim suppositions, deranged theories, overheard scraps of conversation, half-remembered pieces of bad advice, and fragments of no-doubt exaggerated anecdotes that amounted to rank superstition.

The rough-and-ready intellectual consensus of the mid-Twentieth Century is being pushed out by a New Superstition whose victims can find testimony on the Internet for anything they choose to believe. The only cure for it is reading books, and lots of them.

The Boxers believed that after one hundred days of training in martial arts they would be impervious to bullets. After three hundred days they would be able to fly.

I always have multiple ladybugs around because they're lucky, and they're good for flowers and the environment.

La religion est, aux yeux de Lucrèce, une superstition qui plonge les hommes dans l'angoisse et le désespoir. La philosophie, elle, a une fonction libératrice.

In the theatre] Thanks.' He paused on the stairs. And good- Don't say it! yelled Helena. No whistling, no well-wishing. I thought you weren't superstitious. I'm not,' she said defiantly, 'but obviously there are limits.

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow.