Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC
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To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCLuck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944