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Quotes about Loss


Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.

Alexander Pope

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Francis Bacon

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

James Russell Lowell

The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurks a cruel bee that stings.

William D. Howells

A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

Dale Carnegie

The smile of her I love is like the dawn Whose touch makes Menmon sing: O see where wide the golden sunlight flows-- The barren desert blossoms as the rose!

Richard Watson Gilder

American public education is a remarkable enterprise; it succeeds best where it fails. Imagine an industry that consistently fails to do what it sets out to do. a factory where this year's product is invariably sleazier than last year's but, nevertheless, better than next year's. Imagine a corporation whose executives are always spending vast sums of money on studies designed to discover just what it is they are supposed to do and then vaster sums for further studies on just how to do it. Imagine a plant devoted to the manufacture of factory seconds to be sold at a loss. Imagine a producer of vacuum cleaners that rarely work hiring whole platoons of engineers who will, in time, report that it is, in fact, true that the vacuum cleaners rarely really work, and who will, for a larger fee, be glad to find out why, if that's possible. If you discover some such outfit, don't invest in it. Unfortunately, we are all required to invest in public education.

Richard Mitchell

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.

William Cowper

I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.

Robert Herrick

Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain

Timothy Leary

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Philip Caldwell

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream; But if 'tis all a blank, then mark the loss Of hours unblest by shadows from the cross.

Unattributed Author

Movin' to Montana soon Gonna be a dental floss tycoon

Frank Zappa

Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.

Julia C.R. Dorr

A blossom of returning light, An April flower of sun and dew; The earth and sky, the day and night Are melted in her depth of blue!

Dora Read Goodale

The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy.

Frances S. Osgood

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Alice James

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

William Shakespeare

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Thomas A. Edison

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

Thomas ã Kempis

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

Frederick Tennyson

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