It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847
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It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 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 BC’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCOne should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005