A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Quotes
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCSurvivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540