William Butler Yeats Quotes

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.

It's a crazy game. It's a game we all choose to play.

An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.

Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life.

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

I remain the luckiest guy I know.

All of life is a wager

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

What is life, but one long risk?

I got very lucky that some of the things that I wanted to work did work. Not because I knew what I was doing, just through dumb luck, it just looked beautiful and sounded great and captured some magical mood. And you just have to hope that you get lucky when you do big things like making a movie, or something.