Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCOne should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Misfortune, 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, 1963A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938