You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005
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Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCMisfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906It 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, 1947Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCSome folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938