
Roosevelt to Henry M. Heymann (2 December 1919), as quoted in Roosevelt and Howe (1962), by Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., p. 153
1910s
The Bee, from Insects for Everybody
How to Attract the Wombat (1949)
Roosevelt to Henry M. Heymann (2 December 1919), as quoted in Roosevelt and Howe (1962), by Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., p. 153
1910s
“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”
Page 457.
Everything's Eventual (2002), "Luckey Quarter"
“A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.”
Source: Chocolat
“What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.”
VI, 54
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI
“Good music always defeats bad luck.”
“There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”
“Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.”
Extreme Championship Wrestling. September 4, 2007.
To Armando Estrada when he wished CM Punk good luck in his "Last Chance" match with John Morrison.
Extreme Championship Wrestling
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
“Broken oaths are bad luck eggs.”
That was so weird, I did not know what to say. So I said, “Eggs?”
“They hatch bad luck.”
Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 5, “To Walk with Owls” Section 3 (p. 86)
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Has been attributed to Seneca since the 1990s (eg. Gregory K. Ericksen, (1999), Women entrepreneurs only: 12 women entrepreneurs tell the stories of their success, page ix.). Other books ascribe the saying to either Darrell K. Royal (former American football player, born 1924) or Elmer G. Letterman (Insurance salesman and writer, 1897-1982). However, it is unlikely either man originated the saying. A version that reads "He is lucky who realizes that luck is the point where preparation meets opportunity" can be found (unattributed) in the 1912 The Youth's Companion: Volume 86. The quote might be a distortion of the following passage by Seneca (who makes no mention of "luck" and is in fact quoting his friend Demetrius the Cynic):<blockquote>"The best wrestler," he would say, "is not he who has learned thoroughly all the tricks and twists of the art, which are seldom met with in actual wrestling, but he who has well and carefully trained himself in one or two of them, and watches keenly for an opportunity of practising them." — Seneca, On Benefits, vii. 1 http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Benefits4.html</blockquote>
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