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

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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

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

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.

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

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

We do not suffer by accident.