Quotes About Superstition

Does six strike you as a good number?" I didn't know what he was getting at. "Six isn't exactly a lucky number," I hedged. "If I were looking for a good number I'd have to go up to seven." I shrugged. "Or down to three.

Expect disaster every seven years,'" he said. "It is an old saying, and true enough.

I had to push him a bit," I said. "Superstitious folk don't like to talk about things they're afraid of. He was about to clam up, and I needed to know what he'd seen in the forest." "I could have gotten it out of him," she said. "More flies with honey and all that.

I was superstitious. Today was a Monday. I was born on Monday. It was a good day to arrive in New York City. No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand.

Astrology is a cousin of racism.

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

Why the Jews? Because an ancient tradition of blaming them for disasters, both present and prospective, a tradition deeply rooted in religious rivalry and superstition, persisted into the modern world and even assumed new forms during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Heels up, of course, for good luck.