Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth
for he magnetizes to your home those read more

Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth
for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.
(typo corrected).

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
[Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
[Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for
the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was read more

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for
the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected
works of Francis Bacon.

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.

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.