If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.