“A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.”
Joanne Harris book Chocolat
Source: Chocolat
“A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.”
Joanne Harris book Chocolat
Source: Chocolat
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men
Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Page 457.
Everything's Eventual (2002), "Luckey Quarter"
“My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a Quaker.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.”
John Steinbeck book The Pearl
Source: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III
“Good music always defeats bad luck.”
Jack Vance (1916–2013) American mystery and speculative fiction writer
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Roosevelt to Henry M. Heymann (2 December 1919), as quoted in Roosevelt and Howe (1962), by Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., p. 153
1910s
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Bee, from Insects for Everybody
How to Attract the Wombat (1949)