Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC
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Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCA self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938