Julia Ward Howe Quotes

Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.

the best people have the rottenest luck

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

I guess the kid had everything but the luck.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.