Mark Twain Quotes about Luck

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

Luck, Doe, Sprinkles

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2059, GENERAL PRESS

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

Mark Twain

Thinking, Luck, Opinion

Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.253, Univ of California Press

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

Mark Twain

Good Luck, Luck, Return

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

Mark Twain

Luck, Target, Enough

Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

Mark Twain

Breathing, Luck, Desert

Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.59, Univ of California Press

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

Mark Twain

Hands, Luck, Honest

Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.422, Univ of California Press

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

Mark Twain

Men, Luck, Helping

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.127, Chartwell

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

Mark Twain

Daughter, People, Luck

Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

Mark Twain

Luck, Ignorant, Way

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.114, BIG BYTE BOOKS

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

Mark Twain

Heart, Luck, Dollars

Mark Twain Quotes about Luck

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