Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932
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Good 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 BCLuck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899It 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, 1813When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886To 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, 1906