All covet, all lose. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Grasp all, lose all. [ Proverb ]
Lose a leg rather than life. [ Proverb ]
Better ask than lose your way. [ Italian Proverb ]
Hope is the last thing we lose. [ Italian Proverb ]
Leisurely, and don't lose heart. [ French ]
So much to win, so much to lose.
No marvel that I fear to choose. [ Miss Landon ]
Better lose a jest than a friend. [ Proverb ]
Neither bribe nor lose thy right. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small.
That dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all. [ Marquis Of Montrose ]
No man can lose what he never had. [ Izaak Walton ]
He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To win or lose it all. [ Marquis of Montrose ]
Sometimes the best gain is to lose. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. [ William Shakespeare ]
Use pastime, so as not to lose time. [ Proverb ]
To win the horse or lose the saddle. [ Proverb ]
O there are Voices of the Past,
Links of a broken chain.
Wings that can bear me back to times
Which cannot come again;
Yet God forbid that I should lose
The echoes that remain! [ Adelaide A. Procter ]
Lose thy fun rather than thy friend. [ Proverb ]
You must lose a fly to catch a trout. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Better lose the saddle than the horse. [ Italian Proverb ]
Lend only what you can afford to lose. [ Proverb ]
'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store. [ Keble ]
Beware of him who has nothing to lose. [ Italian Proverb ]
He that has most time has none to lose. [ Proverb ]
Excess of obligations may lose a friend. [ Proverb ]
We must lose a minnow to catch a salmon. [ French Proverb ]
All objects lose by too familiar a view. [ Dryden ]
To fly upon plunder and lose the battle. [ Proverb ]
Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Lose not thyself, nor give thy humors way;
God gave them to thee under lock and key. [ George Herbert ]
Lock the stable before you lose the steed. [ Proverb ]
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. [ William M. Thackeray ]
It is better to lose a ring than a finger. [ E. Jesse ]
You lose, and for your loss get no thanks. [ Ovid ]
Lose no opportunity of doing a good action. [ Proverb ]
You have too much respect upon the world:
They lose it that do buy it with much care. [ William Shakespeare ]
Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win.
By fearing to attempt. [ William Shakespeare ]
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. [ Lamb ]
If you win at that you will lose at nothing. [ Proverb ]
Lose not a hog for a halfpenny-worth of tar. [ Proverb ]
The flush of youth soon passes from the face,
The spells of fancy from the mind depart;
The form may lose its symmetry, its grace.
But time can claim no victory over the heart. [ Mrs. Dinnies ]
Then know, that I have little wealth to lose;
A man I am cross'd with adversity. [ William Shakespeare ]
It signifies nothing to play well if you lose. [ Proverb ]
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries:
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. [ William Shakespeare ]
I will either win the horse or lose the saddle. [ Proverb ]
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. [ Syrus ]
Oh! thou gentle scene
Of Sweet repose; where by the oblivious draught
Of each sad toilsome day to peace restor'd.
Unhappy mortals lose their woes awhile. [ Thomson ]
He is one that will not lose his cap in a crowd. [ Proverb ]
The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain. [ Goethe ]
Lose not the time that offers itself by praying. [ Ovid ]
He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. [ Boiste ]
Wolves may lose their teeth, but not their nature. [ Proverb ]
Some had rather lose their friend than their jest. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
They that burn you for a witch lose all their coals. [ Proverb ]
Seek till you find, and you'll not lose your labour. [ Proverb ]
If you lose your time you cannot get money nor gain. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. [ Proverb ]
What they lose in the hundred they gain in the county. [ Proverb ]
Temper is so good a thing that we should never lose it.
If fools should not fool it they shall lose their season. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death. [ Whittier ]
Science has but one fashion - to lose nothing once gained. [ Stedman ]
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. [ Ward Beecher ]
It is better to suffer than to lose the power of suffering. [ Walter Savage Landor ]
The best metals lose their lustre, unless brightened by use. [ Proverb ]
He that does not knot his thread will lose his first stitch. [ Gaelic ]
Some will rather lose their best friend than their worst joke. [ Proverb ]
They only fall that strive to move, or lose that care to keep. [ Owen Meredith ]
Lose the habit of hard labour with its manliness, and then,
Comes the wreck of all you hope for in the wreck of noble men. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]
We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. [ William Shakespeare ]
Though we lose our fortune, yet we should not lose our patience. [ Proverb ]
What we gain by experience is not worth what we lose in illusion. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Lose not thy own for want of asking for it: 'twill get thee no thanks. [ Thomas Fuller ]
There is nothing certain in man's life but this, that he must lose it. [ Owen Meredith ]
Prosperities can only be enjoyed by those who fear not at all to lose them. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. [ South ]
He that will not sail till he have a full fair wind, will lose many a voyage. [ Proverb ]
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. [ George Eliot ]
Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also. [ Cervantes ]
Where there is nothing to be had, even the king of France must lose his right. [ Proverb ]
Women make us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms! [ De Finod ]
He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. [ Thomas Fuller ]
We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at and lose by overrunning. [ William Shakespeare ]
The tears of a young widow lose their bitterness when wiped by the hands of love.
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. [ Landor ]
We usually lose the today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Resolved: Never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way. [ JONATHAN EDWARDS ]
To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind. [ Seneca ]
I am always ill at ease when tumults arise among the mob - people who have nothing to lose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Old men who preserve the desires of youth lose in consideration what they gain in ridicule. [ Napoleon I ]
Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate. [ Bishop Hall ]
A calumnious abuse, too often repeated, becomes so familiar to the ear as to lose its effect.
The training of children is a profession where we must know to lose time in order to gain it. [ Rousseau ]
Still thou knowest that in the ardor of pursuit men lose sight of the goal from which they start. [ Schiller ]
Free people, remember this rule: you may acquire liberty, but never regain it if you once lose it. [ Rousseau ]
Worthy books are not companions, they are solitudes; we lose ourselves in them, and all our cares. [ S. Bailey ]
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. [ Alexander Smith ]
A coquette is a woman who places her honor in a lottery: ninety-nine chances to one that she will lose it.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
We lose some friends for whom we regret more than we grieve; and others for whom we grieve, yet do not regret. [ Rochefoucauld ]
We dream such beautiful dreams, that we often lose all our happiness when we perceive that they are only dreams. [ E. Souvestre ]
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself. [ Phillips Brooks ]
Truth, justice and reason, lose all their force and all their lustre when they are not accompanied by agreeable manners. [ James Thomson ]
Let Fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. [ Pope ]
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. [ Charles Lamb ]
It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments. [ J. F. Boyes ]
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded. [ Montesquieu ]
Give, and you may keep your friend if you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Garments will fall to pieces, jewels and gold will lose something of their lustre, but the fame that great poems acquire will last through all time. [ Ovid ]
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it doth singe yourself. We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose by overrunning. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is a curious thing about the game of marriage - a game, by the way, that is going out of fashion - the wives hold all the honors and invariably lose the odd trick. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under jour cudgel; but; should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. [ Jane Porter ]
Make use of time, if you love eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled. Tomorrow cannot be assured. Today is only yours, and if you procrastinate, you lose, and lose forever. One today is worth two tomorrows. [ Euchiridion ]
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me. I have no repugnances. Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. [ Lamb ]
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children, and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it. [ Colton ]
When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults. [ Agapet ]
Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable.
[ Zimmermann ]
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear. [ Hare ]
I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively with the transitory in things and lose themselves in the study of what is perishable, since we are here for this very end that we may make the perishable imperishable, which we can do only after we have learned how to appreciate both. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things: the first, that they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess. [ Sir W. Raleigh ]
If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]
There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles - that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith - be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support. [ Southey ]
We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference. [ Leigh Hunt ]
What delight will it afford to renew the sweet counsel we have taken together, to recount the toils, the combats, and the labor of the way, and to approach, not the house, but the throne of God, in company, in order to join in the symphonies of heavenly voices, and lose ourselves amidst the splendor and fruitions of the beatific vision. [ Robert Hall ]
There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. The casual deliration of a few becomes, by this mysterious reverberation, the frenzy of many; men lose the use, not only of their understandings, but of their bodily senses; while the most obdurate unbelieving hearts melt like the rest in the furnace where all are cast as victims and as fuel. [ Carlyle ]
It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]
Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. [ Rogers ]
You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home - home to a Father's house - to an eternal home? [ Mark Hopkins ]
Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]
I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]