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  • A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle. -- Rumi
  • A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. -- James Keller
  • A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. -- Max Beerbohm
  • Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. -- Danny Strong
  • A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. -- Milton Berle
  • A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself. -- Johann Georg Hamann
  • Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. -- Ronald Reagan
  • It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. -- Harry S. Truman
  • The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. -- Andy Warhol
  • Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. -- Robert Kennedy
  • When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. -- Francis Bacon
  • One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from. -- Floyd Patterson
  • The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. -- Sun Tzu
  • I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. -- Groucho Marx
  • I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
  • The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white. -- Wassily Kandinsky
  • Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. -- B. R. Ambedkar
  • The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity. -- Yehuda Berg
  • In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history. -- Juan Williams
  • Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow. -- Sholom Aleichem
  • Nobody loses all the time. -- e. e. cummings
  • A Warrior often loses heart. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Social sorrow loses half its pain. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Compliments win friends, honesty loses them. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • In the end, everyone loses everyone. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Power without abuse loses its charm. -- Paul Valery
  • A divided heart loses both worlds. -- A. B. Simpson
  • He who slings mud loses ground. -- Gautama Buddha
  • He who hoards much loses much. -- Laozi
  • Much wants more and loses all. -- Aesop
  • Who loses a day loses life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty loses its relish; the graces never. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
  • The wise man never loses his temper. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • It's not a revolution if nobody loses -- Clay Shirky
  • He who slings mud generally loses ground. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Everybody loses the thing that made them. -- Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you. -- John Oliver
  • Age is information failure. The body loses fluency. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The great person never loses a childlike spirit. -- Mencius
  • Wit loses its point when dipped in malice. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Once exposed, a secret loses all its power. -- Ann Aguirre
  • It's the good loser who finally loses out. -- Kin Hubbard
  • He who waits on God loses no time. -- Vance Havner
  • He who loses the arts loses the culture. -- Francis Schaeffer
  • If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? -- George Carlin
  • There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. -- Horace
  • In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility. -- James Branch Cabell
  • Whomever compares him or herself to another, always loses. -- Mark Victor Hansen
  • The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. -- Hans Selye
  • Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it. -- Bobby Jones
  • A British villain never loses their sense of humour. -- Tom Hooper
  • A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • They say a story loses something with each telling. -- Cecelia Ahern
  • Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. -- Jim Rohn
  • For one gains by losing And loses by gaining. -- Laozi
  • No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone -- Paulo Coelho
  • The soul that has no established aim loses itself -- Michel de Montaigne
  • He that fears death loses the joys of life. -- Jan Hus
  • One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself. -- Mary Engelbreit
  • If I don't win, the award show loses credibility. -- Kanye West
  • For he who loses all often easily loses himself. -- Primo Levi
  • Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve. -- Michael Chabon
  • A successful person never loses...they either win or learn! -- John Calipari
  • If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. -- Peter Handke
  • No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor. -- Ayn Rand
  • If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants. -- Albert Einstein
  • He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness. -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • The man of true greatness never loses his child's heart. -- Mencius
  • A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Just because it's broken doesn't mean it loses its importance. -- Jessica Sorensen
  • If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling. -- Geezer Butler
  • Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. -- Will Durant
  • If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling -- Geezer Butler
  • Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished. -- Alastair Reynolds
  • When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. -- Izaak Walton
  • Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses. -- Stan Kroenke
  • Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity. -- Albert Camus
  • Apologies, one loses perspective after spending a week in a brothel. -- Christopher Moore
  • A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle. -- James Keller
  • The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance. -- Rae Foley
  • The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. -- Izaak Walton
  • When a man loses his vision of the future he dies. -- Richard Paul Evans
  • A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out. -- James Joyce
  • When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • As far as I can work out, no-one really loses out. -- James May
  • One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY. -- Akira Toriyama
  • Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • When a contestant actually loses consciousness, I think that's a good sign. -- Tom Bergeron
  • The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness. -- Paul Valery
  • Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. -- Kathleen Norris
  • Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force. -- Bobby Fischer
  • FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved. -- Beth Moore
  • A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams. -- Dot Richardson
  • Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game. -- Johan Cruijff
  • The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair. -- Nikita Khrushchev
  • If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. -- Lauren Oliver
  • War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war. -- Giles Duley
  • When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. -- Shirley Chisholm
  • The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day. -- Laozi
  • Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement. -- Egon Friedell
  • In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete. -- Yakov Smirnoff
  • Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack. -- Susan Kay
  • When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity. -- John Stott
  • The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I don't think anyone loses by trying to be loyal to their dreams. -- Hayley Williams
  • The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory. -- David Millar
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