Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932
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Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCOne should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963