Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886
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Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCLuck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCThose who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Good 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 BCWe do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8