Some folk want their luck buttered.

Quote by Thomas Hardy

Topics: Chance Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Luck Quotes

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

You was a good man, and did good things.

You was a good man, and did good things.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences...

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences...

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars...

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars...

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to...

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to...

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may...

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may...

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had...

I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had...

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving...

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving...

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales...

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales...

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument...

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument...

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met...

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met...

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.