lose quotes

Perdre Mais perdre vraiment Pour laisser place a'   la trouvaille Perdre La vie pour trouver laVictoire. To lose But really to lose And make room for discovery To lose Life so as to discover Victory.

-Kostrowitzki
  Calligrammes,'Toujours'.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Atimeto be born, and atimeto die; atimetoplant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Atimetoweep, and atimeto laugh; atimetomourn, and a time to dance: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 3:1^8.

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea

- e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings cummings
'maggie and milly and molly and may'.

We really win if we win. But we may even win if we lose.

- Bob (RobertJoseph) Dole
  On the prospect of gaining popularity by reintroducing a balanced budget amendment. In the NewYork Times, 2 Mar.

It signifies nothing to play well and lose.

- Rose Fyleman
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

There are times in politics whenyou must be on theright side and lose.

-John Kenneth Galbraith
  In the Observer,11 Feb.

I only regretthat Ihave but onelifeto losefor mycountry.

- Nathan Hale
   At his execution, 22 Sep.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  More Poems, no.36.

We ofthesinking middle class†havenothing to losebut our aitches.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.13.

Pesons le gain et la perte, en prenant croix que Dieu est. Estimons ces deux cas: si vous gagnez, vous gagnez tout; si vous perdez, vous ne perdez rien.Gagezdonc qu'il est, sans he  siter. Let us weigh up the gain and loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess thetwo cases: if you winyou win everything, if you lose you lose nothing.Do not hesitate then; wager that he does exist.

- Blaise Pascal
c.1654^1662  Pense  es, no.233 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Captain Shotover. Heartbreak House, act 2.

To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Lady Bracknell.The Importance of Being Earnest, act1.