Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Some folks want their luck buttered.

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

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

Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.

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

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.