Some folks want their luck buttered.

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

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

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

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

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

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