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Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

—William Carlos Williams, 1947

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

—Cormac McCarthy, 2005

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

—Joan Didion, 2005

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

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

We do not suffer by accident. 

—Jane Austen, 1813

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

—David Hume, 1742

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

—Christina Stead, 1938

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 BC

When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.

—Martin Luther, c. 1540

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890