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

Some folks want their luck buttered.

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.