Josh Billings Quotes

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

The only thing you have to worry about is bad luck. I never had bad luck.

Fate has blessed me.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

I have so much. Why did it all happen to me? There has to be a reason.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'

The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

Happiness may perhaps be shared. But not luck, sadly.

I'd rather have luck on my side than anything else.

Nobody knows the pulse of the audience. By the grace of God, things are working for me.

Someone up there likes me.

Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

Good luck lies in odd numbers.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!

I think in most sports sometimes you need a little luck for the ball or calls to roll your way.

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

It's better to be lucky than good.