Some folk want their luck buttered.

Quote by Thomas Hardy

Topics: Chance Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Luck Quotes

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.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure...

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure...

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been...

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been...

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...

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream fulfilled, lives not as a man...

One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream fulfilled, lives not as a man...

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...

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

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

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

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

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 was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I...

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I...

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let...

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let...

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations...

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations...

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...

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...

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...

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root...

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root...