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Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

—William Carlos Williams, 1947

It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. 

—Charlotte Brontë, 1847

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

—Joan Didion, 2005

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

—David Hume, 1742

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

—Christina Stead, 1938