“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

“Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. I was too young for one war and too old for the next one. But I seen what come out of it. You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than they’re worth. Ask them Gold Star mothers what they paid and what they got for it. You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.”

“It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship.""It's awful worse luck not to.”

“I guess you are all right. That was bad luck all right. Plenty bad luck.”

“Sometimes before your luck can be good,someone else's has to be bad”

“What i'm saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune's a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.”