Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932
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Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Misfortune, 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, 1963Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCWhen the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC