[MrCrabbs]

Found a nice collection of quotes about luck. Since most 2p games end with at least one player accusing the other of getting lucky, I think these quotes will serve well.

Whatever your view on the importance of luck in GM, there is something here for you:

* "Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold." - Yiddish Proverb.
* "Luck stops at the door and inquires whether prudence is within." - Danish proverb
* "Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth." - Arab Proverb
* "You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky...to hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe you're lucky." - Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar named desire
* "Luck never gives; it only lends." - Proverb.
* "Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him." - German Proverb.
* "Luck will carry a man across the brook if he is not too lazy to leap." - Danish proverb
* "No gulls, no luck." - French Proverb.
* "Luck has much for many, but enough for no one." - Danish proverb
* "Every dog has his day in luck." - Japanese Proverb.
* "Go and wake up your luck." - Persian Proverb.
* "When God throws the dice are loaded." - Greek Proverb.
* "No one is luckier than him who believes in his luck" - German proverb.
* "Luck never made a man wise." - Seneca
* "Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish." - Ovid.
* "If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?" - Stanislaw J. Lec
* "Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck." - George S. Clason
* "Do you feel lucky?" - Clint Eastwood
* "Good luck has its storms." - George Lucas.
* "I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" - Jean Cocteau
* "Diligence is the mother of good luck." - Benjamin Franklin.
* "Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness." - Democritus
* "Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
* "The champion makes his own luck." - Red Blaik.
* "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them." - P.J. O'Rourke
* "Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck." - Orson Welles
* "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men." - E.B. White
* "Shallow men believe in luck." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
* "Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." - Ray Kroc
* "I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get." - Sam Shoen
* "All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it." - Robert Collier
* "Everything in life is luck." - Donald Trump
* "There is no such thing as luck." - from "Star Wars"
* "Luck's always to blame." - Jean de la Fontaine.
* "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - President Thomas Jefferson
* "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit." - R. E. Shay.
* "The only sure thing about luck is that it will change." - Wilson Mizner
* "Luck is not a factor." - Lindsay Brigman from "The Abyss" (1989)
* "Fortune favours the bold." - Terence 190-159 BC.
* "Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered." - William Shakespeare.
* "Good luck needs no explanation." - Shirley Temple Black.
* "God does not play dice with the universe" - Albert Einstein.
* "Luck is not chance-
It's Toil-
Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned-" - Emily Dickinson.
* "Fortune always will confer an aura
Of worth, unworthily; and in this world
The lucky person passes for a genius." - Euripedes
* "Some folk want their luck buttered." - Thomas Hardy

Songs About Luck and their Singers

"With a Little Luck" - Paul McCartney; "I should be so lucky" - Kylie Minogue; "Luck Be a Lady" - Frank Sinatra; "Lucky Star" - Madonna.

[lotta1980]

MrCrabbs wrote :
* "Luck never gives; it only lends." - Proverb.
It s Swedish Proverb

[judd]

Nice thread crabbs,

I believe you make your own luck, and chance favours the prepared mind.

[MrCrabbs]

Thanks Judd, I tend to agree with you there.

[aussie]

what you both said is utter bs.......the system does favour one player in 2p

no matter what i buy . the other player seems to skip it.

i can own both pink and green or dark blue and red,,,but go to jail as the other player is about to hit me. most games lately i go to jail around 10/13 times. the other person may go 3/4 max but never when i am about to hit, usually after i have paid

so i disagree strongly with your opinions

and dont bother to reply fingerbang ...i say random rolls are bs as well
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[MrCrabbs]

So, aussie.

Do you have any idea why it is only you who "always" gets bad luck? Maybe you are looking for it, and ignoring the good?

I would love to see a statistical analysis of aussie's games in particular. She has been playing so long it is practically impossible that she would have the consistently bad luck she complains of.

[aussie]

i lost that game where i bought pink from you...that were fully upgraded ..ended up 3rd ... even blacks beat me...yellow kiilled me, hit it almost every lap

according to me if rolls were random i wouldnt hit yellow (same square) almost every lap
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[Bill2k06]

ill tell you what is bad luck

in a 4player game ,
i own the greens FULLY upgraded
NOONE lands on them for 8 passes,

so thats a possibility of 24 posible lands at maximum (not accounting for double 1 lands) and didnt get a single land.

that is bad luck,

but hey ho, life goes on
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[fingerbun]

Aussie, I think you suffer from something called "Galactic Magnate Paranoia". It's quite common in people who blame their loses on bad luck rather then bad play.
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[sim5]

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No expectations, no disappointments.

[aussie]

fingerbang i have only 2 words to say to you and i think you know what they are
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[fingerbun]

Sorry Fingerbang?

Thanks for the apology Aussie...
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[Fort]

[aussie]

ditto to you too fort
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