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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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.

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. 

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.