Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947
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Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCTo put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCLuck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886