You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005
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Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCWhen the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC