Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BC
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To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540Nothing 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, 1932A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCFortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886