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Luck

«A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.»
Author: James A. Garfield (President) | About: Courage, Luck | Keywords: pluck, pound, ton
«An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.»
«A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the person»
Author: Turkish Proverb | About: Luck | Keywords: luck, seeks
«Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.»
Author: Yiddish Proverb | About: Luck | Keywords: ounce, pound
«Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck»
«Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.»
«A person is unlucky who falls on his back and breaks his nose»
Author: French Proverb | About: Luck | Keywords: nose, unluckiest, unlucky
«A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.»
Author: Jennifer Lopez (Actress, Model, Singer) | About: Luck, Praise | Keywords: Cameron, Cameron Diaz, Diaz
«As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Luck | Keywords: attribute, bad luck, smartness
«A merchants happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves»
Author: Proverb | About: Business, Chance, Happiness, Luck | Keywords: chance upon, hangs, merchants, waves