Loss embraceth shame. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Loss without injustice. [ Law ]
The bell strikes one.
We take no note of time,
But from its loss,
To give it then a tongue,
Is wise in man. [ Young ]
An evil gain equals a loss. [ Syrus ]
Too much taking heed is loss. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A wise man's loss is his secret. [ Proverb ]
For loss of his or her services. [ Law ]
An inheritance which entails loss. [ Law ]
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been and may be again. [ Wordsworth ]
Buy and sell, and live by the loss. [ Proverb ]
Since grief but aggravates thy loss,
Grieve not for what is past. [ Percy ]
He that goes out with often loss
Comes home at last by weeping cross. [ Proverb ]
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains.
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! [ Milton ]
My loss is such as cannot be repaired,
And to the wretched, life can be no mercy. [ Dryden ]
We take no note of time but from its loss. [ Young ]
You lose, and for your loss get no thanks. [ Ovid ]
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss,
Who often removeth is suer of loss. [ Tusser ]
He that hath no good trade, it is to his loss. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce
Of that serene companion - a good name.
Recovers not his loss; but walks with shame,
With doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse. [ Wordsworth ]
The loss of illusions is the death of the soul. [ Chamfort ]
The dews of the evening most carefully shun,
Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. [ Chesterfield ]
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss. [ Publius Syrus ]
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. [ Dante ]
He that is not sensible of his loss has lost nothing. [ Proverb ]
Retreat may be success, -
Delay, best speed, - half loss, at times, whole gain. [ Robert Browning ]
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it. [ Congreve ]
A little loss alarms one, a great loss tames one down. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Gain at the expense of credit must be set down as loss. [ Proverb ]
A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honour. [ Proverb ]
People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
The loss of reputation is greater than can be possibly estimated. [ Livy ]
He's at a great loss for jests that is forced to rake hell for them. [ Proverb ]
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. [ Winston Churchill ]
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. [ Louis the Eleventh ]
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in heaven before unfelt. [ Bovee ]
The total loss of reason is less deplorable than the total depravation of it. [ Cowley ]
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise. [ Goethe ]
Loss of strength is more frequently due to the faults of youth than of old age. [ Cicero ]
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step towards repairing our loss. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
From the loss of our friends, teach us how to enjoy and improve those who remain. [ William Ellery Channing ]
The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power. [ Emerson ]
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss. [ Dryden ]
As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain. [ Quarles ]
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. [ Gregory ]
It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. [ Theodore Parker ]
It is better to live in a haunted forest than to live amongst relations after the loss of wealth. [ Hitopadesa ]
What, though thou wert rich and of high esteem, dost thou yield to sorrow because of thy loss of fortune? [ Hitopadesa ]
Sin seen from the thought is a diminution or loss; seen from the conscience or will, it is a pravity or bad. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back. [ Richard Alleine ]
Mysteries which must explain themselves are not worth the loss of time which a conjecture about them takes up. [ Sterne ]
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to its real value, but to the value our fancies set upon it. [ Addison ]
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb. Time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. [ Southey ]
I never knew the old gentleman with the scythe and hour-glass bring anything but gray hairs, thin cheeks, and loss of teeth. [ Dryden ]
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses. [ Wycherley ]
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 ]
Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it. [ Fenelon ]
It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictions that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss. [ L'Estrange ]
Drinking of wine brings poverty, shame, quarrels; leads to calumnious talk, unchastity, murder, and the loss of freedom, of honor, of understanding. [ Tosafot ]
There are forty men of wit for one of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of ready change. [ Unknown ]
A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads, that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it. [ Ruffini ]
That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do. [ John Ruskin ]
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. [ Buddha ]
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half as useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense. And he that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change. [ Pope ]
Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor, and conscience, to obtain them: it is to pay so dear for them that the bargain is a loss. [ Bruyere ]
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time. [ Richard Baxter ]
Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there. [ Rutherford ]
Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers, - they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners and things that never have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding or perverting history and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. [ Mary Wortley Montagu ]
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 ]
The loss of a mother is always severely felt; even though Her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn! It is like that lonely star before us; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends. [ Lamartine ]
My method has been simply this - to think well on the subject which I had to deal with and when thoroughly impressed with it and acquainted with it in all its details, to write away without stopping to choose a word, leaving a blank where I was at a loss for it; to express myself as simply as possible in vernacular English, and afterwards to go through what I had written, striking out all redundancies, and substituting, when possible, simpler and more English words for those I might have written. I found that by following this method I could generally reduce very considerably in length what I had put on paper without sacrificing anything of importance or rendering myself less intelligible. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]