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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

Some folks want their luck buttered.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

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

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

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

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

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

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

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