One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895
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Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCIt is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC