The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley.
—Robert Burns
Showing posts with label luck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label luck. Show all posts
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Post #3138
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.
—Mark Twain
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Post #2544
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?
—Mayer Rothschild
—Mayer Rothschild
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Post #1644
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
—Channing Pollock
—Channing Pollock
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Post #1369
A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of.
—Joseph Addison
—Joseph Addison
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Monday, November 05, 2012
Post #1103
One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with your luck.
—Carl Zuckmayer
—Carl Zuckmayer
Friday, August 17, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Post #1014
The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run.
—Marquis de Racan
Friday, February 10, 2012
Post #858
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
—R.E. Shay
—R.E. Shay
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Post #170
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.
—Ovid
—Ovid
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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