Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to
meet it.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to
meet it.

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives
intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her read more

As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives
intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's
wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.

A farmer travelling with his load
Picked up a horseshoe on the road,
And nailed if fast read more

A farmer travelling with his load
Picked up a horseshoe on the road,
And nailed if fast to his barn door,
That luck might down upon him pour;
That every blessing known in life
Might crown his homestead and his wife,
And never any kind of harm
Descend upon his growing farm.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.