Woe to whomever laughs once and gets used to it because life's treacherousness knows no bounds and when she bestows gifts on you w...ith one hand, she then steps on you with both feet and sends after you that crazy woman, bad luck; it bites at you and tears at you and flings your flesh to the crows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More luck to honest poverty, It claims respect, and a' that;... But honest wealth's a better thing, We dare be rich for a' that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well ...as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain thing...s are concerned, I plan ahead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Waldo Lydecker: Laura considered me the wisest, the wittiest, the most interesting man she'd ever met. I was in complete accord wi...th her on that point.... She thought me also the kindest, the gentlest, the most sympathetic man in the world. Detective Mark McPherson: Did you agree with her there, too? Waldo Lydecker: McPherson, you won't understand this, but I've tried to become the kindest, gentlest, the most sympathetic man in the world. Detective Mark McPherson: Have any luck? Waldo Lydecker: Let me put it this way: I shall be sincerely sorry to see my neighbor's children devoured by wolves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, ...the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For, the expectation of gratitude is mean, and is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person. It is a g...reat happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers ...of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame. Only those books come down which deserve to last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »