The world is a game of chess; the loser loses and the winner wins.
jamal al-din al-afghaniParadoxically, 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 gioiaIn 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 tocquevilleWhen language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
Michel de MontaigneAs 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.
When technology makes it perfect, art loses.
brian enoThe tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
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.
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 brontëI 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 casanovaIf 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 fénelonIn my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
bobby fischerWhite can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently.
bobby fischerIt is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
mary renaultGlobalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
paul samuelsonHe 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.
confuciusThey 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...the baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.
david gemmellCovetousness, 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 lockeThe joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
friedrich von schillerThe sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
Anthony TrollopeNobody 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.
vitruviusLogic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
The Court never loses the power of unravelling cases of fraud.
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.
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 .
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