Myself and the lucky moment. [ Charles V ]

Lucky people are her favorites. [ Mme. de Genlis ]

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven. [ Dryden ]

He needs little advice that is lucky. [ Proverb ]

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [ Juvenal ]

He who is not lucky let him not go a-fishing. [ Proverb ]

To succeed well, one must have his lucky day. [ Proverb ]

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

Some folks say it was a miracle. Saint Francis suddenly appeared and knocked the next pitch clean over the fence. But I think it was just a lucky swing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit: but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures. [ Thucydides ]