“Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.” MenChildrenHas BeensSuccessfulHe ManLuckyDisasterNotorious Author:Euripides
“Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.” MenYearsHeartWarGovernmentHalfEconomyFourEconomicConditionsHe ManProductsLuckyDiedResponsibleAppearanceBritishDrivenChiefsTitlesHardshipFour YearsAirplaneGrossLecturesNewtonCrossingsAdviserCambridgeWartimeOverworkKeynesBritish GovernmentHeart FailurePropellerForeign ExchangeBritish Economy Author:Freeman Dyson
“God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself, nor try To make it, as the lucky fellow might A close monopoly by patent-right.” MenTryingFirstsSaidMightSleepHe ManLuckyDiscoveryFellowsBlessMonopolyGod BlessPatents Book:The Money-king: And Other Poems Source: The Money-king: And Other Poems
“How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.” MenWritingHe ManLuckyCreatingEveningTaverns Book:Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853-1896 Source: Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853-1896
“A man turns to the guy next to him who's covered in bandages from head to toe and asks "What happened?". "I fell through a glass window," explains the man. The first man says: "Lucky you were wearing all those bandages."” MenFirstsHumorFunnyGuyTurnsNextAsksHappenedHe ManLuckyWindowGlassesCoveredToesLucky YouBandages Author:Frank Carson
“I think I was quite lucky in that I went to an all-girls school. I was never put in an environment where I had to be the other - the woman as opposed to the man - all the way through my education. I was never made to feel that way at home.” ThinkingMenWayFeelsMadeHomeSchoolGirlEnvironmentHe ManLucky Author:Romola Garai
“I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.” KnowsMenShouldSometimesPrayerForgetAliveHe ManLuckyYeahUpstairsGood Prayer Author:Rodney Atkins