“It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.” IfsTwoEnoughAgeLeftFiveToo MuchWiseFoodLuckyCookingPotatoesSaladPotato Salad Author:Laurie Colwin
“Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.” IfsHappensSexWomenLibertyVirtueWiseCrimeReaderLuckyGood ThingsDeniedForbiddenBeing Wise Author:Marie de Gournay
“I love what I do and feel really lucky to still love what I do - I want to get out of bed and go to work at least three out of five days a week! My fear is it ends up any less than three days. But design-wise, I've still got an appetite, a lot more I want to say with my work - the story is not nearly complete!” WantFeelsStillsEndsStoriesThreeFiveWiseWeekDesignLuckyBedAppetite Author:Matthew Williamson
“If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.” IfsMenMistakeWiseBrotherThousandLuckyTenOriginalsCousinSame Mistakes Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore
“I don't think I'm lucky; I think I have a tough constitution. That's a lot of it. And I've been wise enough to listen to other people. I was unconsciously cultivating as many straight friends as I could.” PeopleThinkingEnoughWiseLuckyToughConstitutionCultivating Author:Iggy Pop
“Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.” UseFeelingsIndividualWiseRiskLuckyGutsHindsightVery Wise Author:Daniel Kahneman
“If Putin and those around him had been smart enough to go in a different direction... The country was ready. The conditions were extremely favorable - with oil prices as high as they were, it was possible to do anything. It was possible to solidify democracy. After the Yeltsin years people began to think that democracy is a disaster, that democracy equals misery. Putin got a lucky break - and he used it the KGB way. He turned out to be a wily KGB man, not a wise statesman.” PeopleThinkingMenDifferentCountryEnoughBreakDemocracyWiseLuckySmartMiseryDisaster Author:Vladimir Voinovich
“Putin got lucky with the Sochi Olympics - it didn't fail, it was a great spectacle - and then he thought, "Why not grab Crimea?" And ended up getting stuck. If he had been a wise man, he wouldn't have done that. Of course, then he wouldn't have held the Olympics, either.” MenDoneWiseFailingLuckyStuck Author:Vladimir Voinovich
“Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.” MadeHumorFunnyVisionWiseSeeingFoolLuckyLuckFortuneFools And FoolishnessFools And WiseFools DayFortune And Luck Author:Michel de Montaigne