One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Quotes
Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCLuck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCIt is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906It 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, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897