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Luck

«Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had no luck at all»
Author: Alfred Edward Housman | About: Luck | Keywords: lad
«Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination»
«Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.»
Author: Lucille Ball | About: Luck | Keywords: banked, realizing
«Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.»
«Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!»
Author: Dr. Seuss (Cartoonist, Writer) | About: Luck | Keywords: lucky, quite
«I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.»
Author: Emo Philips | About: Luck | Keywords: gum, hopping
«I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.»
Author: Katharine Hepburn | About: Art, Luck, Opinions | Keywords: involved, lucky, secretly
«I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher (Politician, Prime Minister) | About: Luck | Keywords: deserved
«I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.»
«Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Luck | Keywords: botany

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