Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938
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Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCGood fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCA self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847There 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, 1897When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540