Lucky Man

Famous quotes containing the words lucky man, lucky and/or man:

“Lucky Man,
it’s true that she’s virtuous
and has a beautiful body.
And it’s true that I am lacking.
But tell me:
will all these people
who aren’t like her
have to die?”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)

“The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother’s side!”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)