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The world is a game of chess; the loser loses and the winner wins.
jamal al-din al-afghani— As quoted in Jam? al-D?n al-Afgh?ni: A Muslim intellectual (1984) by Anwar Moazzam, p. 3
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.
dana gioia— "The Anonymity of the Regional Poet: Ted Kooser," from Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture (1992)
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.
alexis de tocqueville— Book Three, Chapter X
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
— Karl Jaspers (1933) 'Man in the Modern Age. p. 128
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
Michel de Montaigne— Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Of Solitude.
As for why it's not particularly smart -- whether he wins or loses -- is because he just called a whole bunch of attention to some silly internet meme that clearly wants attention. Beck would have been better off just ignoring it. Instead, in legitimizing it by trying to take it down, many more people become aware of the meme -- and may start calling attention to situations where Beck (and others) make use of such tactics.
— Masnick, Michael (September 8, 2009). "Glenn Beck Didn't Rape And Murder Anyone... But He Doesn't Want Websites Discussing It". Techdirt (www.techdirt.com). Retrieved on 2009-10-04.
When technology makes it perfect, art loses.
brian eno— As quoted in Wired (January 1999)
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
— 1922 Pieces of Hate, and Other Enthusiasms,'Sport for Art's Sake'.
Hethat inhisstudieswhollyapplieshimselftolabourand exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time, and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labour and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.
— Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and Love; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fulness of the Godhead shines.
anne brontë— Helen to Arthur (Ch. XLIX : "The Rain Descended...")
I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.
giacomo casanova— History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, vol. 11, chap. 4, p. 112
If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacrifice of ourselves to His good pleasure, desiring only to love Him and to forget ourselves. He who thus loses his soul shall find it again with eternal life.
françois fénelon— P. 542. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
bobby fischer— A bust to the King's Gambit (1960)
White can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently.
bobby fischer— On his eponymous defense to the King's Gambit. A bust to the King's Gambit (1960)
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
mary renault— The Praise Singer (1978)
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
paul samuelson— Quoted in: Richard Duncan (2011) The Dollar Crisis, p. 232
He that in his Studies wholly applies himself to Labour and Exercise, and neglects Meditation, loses his time: And he that only applies himself to Meditation, and neglects Labour and Exercise, does only wander and lose himself.
confucius— The Morals of Confucius, 2nd edition (London, 1724), Maxim X, p. 114.
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.
eugène delacroix— 21 September 1854 (p. 256)
...the baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.
david gemmell— Ch. 6 (Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde)
Covetousness, and the desire of having in our possession, and under our dominion, more than we have need of, being the root of all evil, should be early and carefully weeded out, and the contrary quality of a readiness to impart to others, implanted. This should be encourag'd by great commendation and credit, and constantly taking care that he loses nothing by his liberality .
john locke— Sec. 110 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.
bertrand russell— Ch. 12: Powers and forms of governments.
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
friedrich von schiller— Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco), Act I, sc. vii (1783).
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 46 (Phineas Redux (1874))
Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is always constant and unshifting. So it is with granaries: grain exposed to the sun's course soon loses its good quality, and provisions and fruit, unless stored in a place unexposed to the sun's course, do not keep long.
vitruvius— Chapter IV, Sec. 2
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
— Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany (1878–1957), "Weeds & Moss", My Ireland
The Court never loses the power of unravelling cases of fraud.
— Bacon, C.J., Ex parte McHattie; In re Wood (1878), L. R. 10 C. D. 402.
A good aphorism is too hard for the teeth of time and is not eaten up by all the centuries, even though it serves as food for every age: hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which like salt is always prized, but which never loses its savor as salt does.
— Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher. Mixed Opinions and Maxims, aphorism 168, 'In Praise of Aphorisms' (1879)
Perhaps one day men will no longer be interested in the unknown, no longer tantalized by mystery . This is possible, but when man loses his curiosity one feels he will have lost most of the other things that make him human .
— Arthur C. Clarke, in The Promise of Space, Berkley Publishing Group, 1 January 1985, p.293
O Time! the beautifier of the dead , Adorner of the ruin, comforter And only healer when the heart hath bled Time! the corrector where our judgments err, The test of truth , love , sole philosopher , For all besides are sophists, from thy thrift Which never loses though it doth defer Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift My hands, and eyes , and heart , and crave of thee a gift .
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 130.
