We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition.
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.
I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do.
Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.