You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.

When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.