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

Some folks want their luck buttered.

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

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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

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