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
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One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].
William Shakespeare
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S Truman
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
George Carlin
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Max Beerbohm
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol
If he loses his temper that easily, where he has to kick somebody, then what's gonna happen next time when he loses his temper, he may do more damage.
Anita Thomas
We not only lose children. We lose adults, too. We get some frantic people. If anybody loses a child, that's where they would want to report to.
Jennifer Taylor
Anybody who has worked very hard to attain something, and then loses it, is going to suffer a feeling of loss and may grieve over that loss.
John Grohol
We know how it is for each other. We're all feeling the same thing. When one of us loses, the others feel bad, too.
Matt Hemry
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Jesus Christ
The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.
Sholem Asch
The moment a party loses trust in them, then it's their duty to self-inhibit.
Romeo Capulong
Don't judge us by who we are. Judge us by the way we play the game. A champion is a champion based not on how he wins, but how he gets back up after he loses.
Hassan Bazzi
In Parkinson's, the striatum loses fibers.
Clive Svendsen
He said if (the U.S. team) loses, he can say he did his best and that he was prepared for it. It builds up your confidence when you work hard at something.
Gloria Adams
This is how we loosen up for the morning announcements. Whoever has the football when the bell rings loses.
Tom O'connor
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
Qualcomm is hedging its bets -- in case CDMA eventually gets killed off or loses out to OFDM.
John Freeman
I can identify with the character really well. The girl loses her father, and I didn't literally lose my father, but figuratively I did.
Jennifer Barretta
In a world where the dead are returning to life, 'trouble' loses much of its meaning. ... Land of the Dead.
Dennis Hopper
When the kids were down, he was the one always getting everybody hyped up. He's never sitting on the sidelines being quiet. When it loses it kills him and when he wins he's just so happy.
Thomas Britt
This is a cyclical business and so there is always someone in the supply chain who wins and someone who loses.
John Felmy
If in all the cases the D.A. loses, these are the most common. It's always hard when you have an adult with his whole life to lose against the word of a child.
John Blaylock
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
Kathleen Norris
Power without abuse loses its charm.
Paul Valery
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles
When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective.
Arundhati Roy
He's a very dedicated kid. Most impressive is, whether Donnie wins or loses, he's cheering on the other kids from the bench and that takes class.
Mark Mears
What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
Terry Bradshaw
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
Augusto Roa Bastos
Thornton was a very good team. But we could learn from those loses and improve.
John Rosner
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
It feels really good. We've had a lot of close loses, and to win a game like this in the league feels great. It's a good way to gain some momentum before the district tournament.
Demetrius Jones
He told us we're not going just to be there. Nobody remembers who loses.
Max Starks
When a community, especially a small community like Bonita loses their school, it's hard on that community.
Kris Mckoin
I guess it's not fun for them right now. But you don't want to be that team [that loses to them].
Adrian Beltre
Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.
Martin L. Gross
In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.
Yakov Smirnoff
I can't talk about the Langone case in particular, but there is a pattern: everything that goes to trial, and ends up in court, he loses.
Michael Greve
How person wins and loses is much more important than how much a person wins and loses.
Tom Krause
But it's OK to be ousted by Moya. It's happening, and I'm notcaring so much to loses in match.
Paradorn Srichaphan
What criteria can we use to say this fighting cock is worth 100,000 baht? When it loses two bouts, it will have to go to the broth pot.
Yukol Limlaemthong
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Lou Gehrig
You can see he is beatable. I think at some point the time will come when he loses.
Philipp Kohlschreiber
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
Robert Fulghum
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
Rudolf Bing
Where we are today is if the city doesn't put this on the agenda and they don't adopt it, the city basically loses $2 million in grant funds, ... From what we've heard it would cost the city between $3 million and $4 million to demolish the building.
David Watkins
If Sarah Bush loses $150,000 annually, we can give it back to them in charity care.
Cathy Emanuel
What happened here, and it's to her advantage, is that she complained and they did an investigation and then they fired her. Even if she loses the harassment claim, juries tend to be very sympathetic about retaliation.
Leon Friedman
We were up 5-3 and lost, and it's rare that (Walter) loses a set 6-3.
Jay Lapidus
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
Krishnamurti
The old story in antitrust cases is that the government wins the battle and loses the war. The question is: What do you get in relief?
Harry First
As bad as it is right now, that's still our home. And like anybody who loses their home, you want to go back there and clean everything up and make it right again.
Luana Froiseth
I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.
Aidan Quinn
What is at stake in this appeal is the ability of the church to uphold its own laws, ... If we lose, everybody loses.
Thomas Hall
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can't be part of the side that loses the Ashes after all these years.
Adam Gilchrist
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
Lord Dunsany
The consequences are most dire for those least able to compete. Once somebody with a family loses housing and is living in a shelter, their ability to regain a foothold is much harder.
Sheila Crowley
You pick up a gun, you pick up the responsibility. If someone falls behind, wait for him to get caught up. If someone loses a bird, stop and wait.
Rod Slings
It doesn't take much. One spouse loses a job or is unemployed for even a little while.
Scott Brown
Blood and gore loses its cartoon defense. If you think we've got problems now, you'll see we have additional problems once the cartoon defense goes away.
Nolan Bushnell
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle
A drunken idiot loses her cell phone and because she is a cop two innocent people get arrested.
Rob Serafinowicz
A party, which loses its appetite for power, would unnerve voters.
Ahmed Dogan
If he loses, he gets to do dishes for a week.
Chris Mekos
All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.
Alexander Maclaren
Amelie is a very, very hard player to beat and even if Fabrice loses his singles matches, there is absolutely no doubt he is the best doubles player in the tournament.
Paul Mcnamee
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
I don't think it'll be tough. A streak is a streak. Everybody loses a streak once in awhile.
Brandon Rush
He loses control of the van he was driving and crashes into a utility pole, which is just outside a cemetery.
Elizabeth Dunigan
Then there is the chastity-belt phenomenon, where her love handles have been his excuse for their dismal love life , or he fears that if she loses the weight, he won't be good enough for her anymore.
Edward Abramson
Of course if he loses that first fight, there's a good chance there's not going to be a second. That's how boxing is.
Ed Zbikowski
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