Mark Twain Luck Quotations

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

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.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.