VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

Losers must have leave to speak.

Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

What's saved affords No indication of what's lost.

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

Things that are not at all, are never lost.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!

That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all.

What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend.

Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou are gone, and for ever!

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost.

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

No man can lose what he never had.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.