Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610
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It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCLuck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCLuck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895