Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.
Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it. (Prentice Mulford)
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.
Luck is for the ill-prepared.
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.
When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
I'd wish you luck, but I don't think it would help," "Why not?" "My lady, you make your own luck.
A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.
Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.