Mark Twain Quotes, Breathing Quotes, Luck Quotes

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

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One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

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I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

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Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.

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My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

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Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

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Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

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Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

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I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Luck Quotes , Literature Quotes