You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005
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Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963There 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, 1897Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932