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

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

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.

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

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

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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

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

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