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

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

—Joan Didion, 2005

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 45

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

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

—Charlotte Brontë, 1847

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

We do not suffer by accident. 

—Jane Austen, 1813

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

—William Carlos Williams, 1947

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1610

Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963