We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813
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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 BCIt is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCLuck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895There 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