"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help."
— Bill Watterson

"Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."
— Terry Pratchett (Mort)

"Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective."
— Alice Hoffman (Local Girls)

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)

"All the luck in the world has to come every year, in every part of every year, or there is not a harvest and then the luck, the bad luck will come and everything we are, all that we can ever be, all the Einsteins and babies and love and hate, all the joy and sadness and sex and wanting and liking and disliking, all the soft summer breezes on cheeks and first snowflakes, all the Van Goghs and Rembrandts and Mozarts and Mahlers and Thomas Jeffersons and Lincolns and Ghandis and Jesus Christs, all the Cleopatras and lovemaking and riches and achievements and progress, all of that, every single damn thing that we are or ever will be is dependent on six inches of topsoil and the fact that the rain comes when it's needed and does not come when it is not needed; everything, every...single...thing comes with that luck."
— Gary Paulsen (Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass)

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
— Dalai Lama

""Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.""
— R.A. Salvatore (The Halfling's Gem)

"Who knows what worse luck your bad luck has save you from."
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)

"My sympathies, friend. You've no manner of luck at all."
— referring to Pirates of the Caribbean

"There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.”"
— Tom Robbins

"Sometimes a crumb falls
From the tables of joy,
Sometimes a bone
Is flung.

To some people
Love is given,
To others
Only heaven."
— Langston Hughes

"Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life. "
— Joan Lowery Nixon (In The Face of Danger)

"There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender for luck. Fall in love whenever you can."
— Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic)

"In the field of clovers, you're the only four-leafed one."
— Tammy Huang

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck."
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (The Mistress of Spices: A Novel)

"There lay the real danger; for the energy they devoted to fighting the disease made them all the more liable to it. In short, they were gambling on their luck and luck is not to be coerced."
— Albert Camus (The Plague)

"Then one woman looked directly at her husband. "Is our place gone?"
"I'm afraid so, girl," he said. "There isn't much left up there. But we're alive. We're all lucky to be alive. We'd have been dead if we'd stayed up above."
"Oh, what a mercy we didn't!" she exclaimed. "How lucky we are!"
Incredible though it sounds, within a few moments, a whole lot of people were congratulating each other on their extraordinary good fortune in only having lost all their worldy posessions."
— Ida Cook (Safe Passage)

""Luck knows no reason nor 'what's right.'" "
— Palladas of Alexandria

"Things, were just , seem to be Closer, they were still Far off( in dreams), Thought that i was Luckiest, but i was just Lucky. That made the difference . :("
— Hemant Chhabra

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it"
— Stephen Leacock

"An Widerständen zeigt sich das Genie des Generals, Glück verhüllt es."
— Quintus Horatius Flaccus

"It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance."
— Al Masudi (From The Meadows of Gold)

"The harder I pray, the luckier I get."
— Niclas Engström

"On the bright side, I'm sure this isn't the last time you'll ever get firebombed, so maybe you'll have better luck next time."
— Janet Evanovich (Finger Lickin' Fifteen)

"Indeed there's a woundy luck in names."
— Ben Jonson

"Es dauerte einen Moment, bis er ihr antwortete:
"Nein, ich spreche von... von eurer Freiheit, glaube ich. Von dem Glück, das ihr habt, für euch zu leben und auf alles andere zu pfeifen.""
— Anna Gavalda (Hunting and Gathering)

"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."
— Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)

"Das Geheimnis des Glücks ist die Freiheit. Das Geheimnis der Freiheit aber ist der Mut."
— Pericles

"Luck is the residue of design."
— John Milton

"[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel you luck changing for the worse."
— Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys)

"He had fought wizards (though not because he wished to), battled goblinkin (only because running hadn't been an option at the time), and faced incredible monsters (drat the luck he sometimes had when he thought about it)."
— Mel Odom (The Quest for the Trilogy: Boneslicer: Book One of the Trilogy)