Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. (Ambrose Bierce)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)