Blind Luck Quotes

God looks after drunks, children and Americans.

Fortune, that favors fools.

We grew up in the middle of nowhere. We didn't have a rich uncle in the music industry or some contact through someone that our dad worked with. And we went into the world blindly, and just through believing, dreaming, and working hard, Good Charlotte came to fruition.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed-more I cannot say.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

’Tis a gross error, held in schools,, That Fortune always favours fools.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

Listen, anybody can put their head down and throw a haymaker and pray and hope it lands.

Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.

I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life?

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.