Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899
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Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCLuck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCTo hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCIt is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963