The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
Rudolf Bing

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Izaak Walton

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
Alexander Smith

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
Thomas Francis Meagher

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
Tommy Franks

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
Charles Caleb Colton

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
Marilyn vos Savant

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

We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.
Jimmy Fallon

What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
William Broome

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
Terry Bradshaw

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
Terry Brennan

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Pat Riley

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon

When a singer leaves a band, I believe the band loses something creatively and the fans are disappointed too.
Ben Jackson