Lost Quotes - page 4

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. (James Joyce)
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. View quote
Mark Twain
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Religions get lost as people do. View quote
Franz Kafka
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. View quote
Bjarne Stroustrup
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning. View quote
Vitruvius
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained. View quote
Pliny the Elder
I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart. (Robert Wagner)
I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals. View quote
Hermann Maier
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. View quote
Billy Graham
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. View quote
John Adams
Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, And that cannot be limited without being lost. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. View quote
James Thurber
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps. View quote
James Thurber
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all. View quote
James Thurber
The past has lost, as it always loses; the future has won, as it always wins. View quote
Lin Carter
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. (Lester B. Pearson)
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. View quote
Truman Capote
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again. View quote
José Rizal
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