Some folks want their luck buttered.

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

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

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.

It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. 

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

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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