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

When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.

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

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

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

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. 

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

Some folks want their luck buttered.

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.

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.