“There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?”

— William Saroyan

Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)

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American writer 1908–1981

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: When Demons Walk

“Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.”

Solón (-638–-558 BC) Athenian legislator

“Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.”

Walker Percy (1916–1990) Southern philosophical novelist

“The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.”

C. S. Forester book Lord Hornblower

Lord Hornblower (1946), p. 52.

“In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest;—guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters

“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?”

Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) Polish science fiction author

“Reagan's legacy to America and modern man is not victory in the Cold War, where he simply got lucky; it is instead one of the most shocking wealth transfers in the history of the world”

Mark Ames (1965) American writer and journalist

Part III: Ragenomics, page 87.
Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond (2005)
Context: Under Reagan, corporations transformed from provider's of stability for employees and their families to fear-juiced stress engines. Reagan's legacy to America and modern man is not victory in the Cold War, where he simply got lucky; it is instead one of the most shocking wealth transfers in the history of the world, all under the propaganda diversion of "making America competitive" and "unleashing the creative energies of the American worker".