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Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing read more
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.
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).
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.
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.
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.
O, once in each man's life, at least,
Good luck knocks at his door;
And wit to read more
O, once in each man's life, at least,
Good luck knocks at his door;
And wit to seize the flitting guest
Need never hunger more.
But while the loitering idler waits
Good luck beside his fire,
The bold heart storms at fortune's gates,
And conquers its desire.
There's something in't
More than my father's skill, which was the great'st
Of his profession, that his read more
There's something in't
More than my father's skill, which was the great'st
Of his profession, that his good receipt
Shall for my legacy be sanctified
By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor
But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture
The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure
By such a day and hour.