Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCQuotes
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCTo hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Good 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, 1899We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCGood or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963