Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742Quotes
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCNothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Good 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’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. 1890When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540