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.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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

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

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

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

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