Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895A 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, 1899Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCCasting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCWe do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963It 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, 8Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886