The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.
Clara Zetkin

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
Kenny Rogers

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.
Gordon Getty

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
Seth Green

They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.
John Doerr

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
Dee Hock

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Sophocles

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Claude M. Bristol

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
Kip Winger

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
David Borenstein

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Friedrich Schiller

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Aeschylus

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Harry Vardon

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
Ken Burns

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.
Marvin Olasky

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy