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O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

As ill-luck would have it.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

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

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.

Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

Luck is the residue of design.

There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st Of his profession, that his good receipt Shall for my legacy be sanctified By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure By such a day and hour.

I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.

Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!

As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.