Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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

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

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

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.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

Some folks want their luck buttered.

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

We do not suffer by accident.