Belief in Luck Quotes

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

The powerless worship Luck and Fate.

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.

It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

I haven't been really superstitious once I left baseball, actually.

I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

I'm perfectly happy about being superstitious and atheistic.

It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't... Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles, it's all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.

There's luck in odd numbers.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

I was scared of the Bible - it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple of Jesus's disciples and I used to show them modern life - how to run the hot and cold taps and things like that. They seemed alright but it didn't change my feelings about the Bible jinx.

Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.