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Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

—William Carlos Williams, 1947

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

—Calvin Coolidge, 1932

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

—Joan Didion, 2005

We do not suffer by accident. 

—Jane Austen, 1813

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

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.

—Mark Twain, 1897

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—Martin Luther, c. 1540

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