Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947
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It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCTo put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCFortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944