Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

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

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.

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

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

We do not suffer by accident. 

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

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

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

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

Some folks want their luck buttered.