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

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

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

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.

Some folks want their luck buttered.

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.

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