Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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

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

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Some folks want their luck buttered.

It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.

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

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.

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.