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Branch Rickey - Luck is the residue of design.

P. G. Wodehouse - At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

Babe Didrikson - Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Robertson Davies - Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Kathleen Norris - If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.

Richard Jeni - It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Charlotte Whitton - Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

Achilles - What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.

Bret Harte - The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Oscar Wilde - When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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

Michael Levine - Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

James Baldwin - Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

Srully D. Blotnick - The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

John Hay - True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

Walt Whitman - Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

Robert A. Heinlein - Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

Langston Coleman - Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%.

William Shakespeare - This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

The Talmud - Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.

Ernest Hemingway - For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

G.K. Chesterton - What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

D. A. F. Sade - ... and thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit -- such are the just grounds for the regrets I have ...

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