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

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

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

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

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

To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.

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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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

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

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