“Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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MOTHER MAIDEN MISTRESS
“Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Has been attributed to Stephen Leacock's "Literary Lapses" (1910), but the quote does not appear in the Project Gutenberg edition http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6340/6340.txt of this work. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. <br class="br">Variant: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 2.
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it”
Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) writer and economist
Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) The second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party
Untouchability
Fred Astaire (1899–1987) American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter
Fred Astaire in "Reminiscences of Fred Astaire", Interview with Ronald L. Davis, Beverly Hills, July 31, 1978, SMU Oral History Project on the Performing Arts. (M).
C. N. R. Rao (1934) Indian chemist
[R. A. Mashelkar, Solid State Chemistry: Selected Papers of C N R Rao, http://books.google.com/books?id=8ZSfo_HUk7oC&pg=PA4, 28 February 1995, World Scientific, 978-981-279-589-2, 4]
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Variant: But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
Miep Gies (1909–2010) Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank
Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100 http://web.archive.org/web/20100113212438/news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_re_eu/eu_netherlands_obit_miep_gies (January 12, 2010)