Luck proverbs

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◆ Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

- Dalai Lama XIV99

◆ Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

- Roman Payne99

◆ Oh, I am fortune's fool!

- William Shakespeare99

◆ Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck

- Toba Beta99

◆ There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn't make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.

- Brandon Mull99

◆ And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

- Jonathan Stroud99

◆ Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

- Alice Hoffman99

◆ In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

- Jeffrey Eugenides99

◆ Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.

- Joan Lowery Nixon99

◆ Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

- Garrison Keillor99

◆ Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

- Neil Gaiman99