Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

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

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

Some folks want their luck buttered.

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. 

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

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.