“A man learns with age, if he is lucky.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: When Demons Walk
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
“A man learns with age, if he is lucky.”
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.
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
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".
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan
“A man's world, but woman bides her time.”
Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer
Source: John Jerome: His Thoughts and Ways (1886), Ch. 7, p. 107.