One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Quotes
Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCIt is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BCTo hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540