Allen George 1902-1989
Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose you die a little.

Anonymous
To lose
Is to learn.

Anonymous
(Rugby Football rules in Toronto)
If a player continues transgressing the rules, his side shall lose him.

The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: St Mark ch.8 v.36 St
Matthew ch.16 v.26
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain
the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Christie Dame Agatha 1890-1976
An Autobiography
War settles nothing ... to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one!

Colby Frank Moore
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Cowley Malcolm 1898-1989
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Eisenhower Dwight D. 1890-1969
When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Hemingway Ernest 1899-1961
You lose it if you talk about it.

Housman A.E. 1859-1936
More Poems
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose;
But young men think it is, and we were young.

Lear Edward 1812-1888
‘The Pobble Who Has No Toes'
The Pobble who has no toes
Had once as many as we;
When once as many as we;
When they said, ‘Some day you may lose them all' ;
He replied, ‘Fish fiddle de-dee!'

Lear Edward 1812-1888
‘The Two Old Bachelor's
And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner,
But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on
growing thinner.

Lessing G. E. 1729-1781
Emilia Galotti
A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

Milton John 1608-1674
Paradise Lost
For who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being.

Milton John 1608-1674
Paradise Lost
What thou art is mine;
Our state cannot be severed, we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self.

Orwell George 1903-1950
Polemic, May
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Proverbs and Sayings
Australian Aboriginal
Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Rubens Paul Alfred 1875-1917
‘Your King and Country Want You'
Oh! we don't want to lose you but we think you ought to go
For your King and your Country both need you so.

Sargent John Singer 1856-1925
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
Man and Superman
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
(of William Morris)
You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

Thomas Edward 1878-1917
‘Lights Out'
I have come to the borders of sleep,
The unfathomable deep
Forest where all must lose
Their way.

Walton Izaak 1593-1683
The Compleat Angler
No man can lose what he never had.

Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
The Importance of Being Earnest
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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