When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
Erma Bombeck

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Henry David Thoreau

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Mitch Hedberg

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
Bob Dylan

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Robert H. Schuller

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Jonathan Swift

Michael left because of the Bulls' management, not because he'd lost his love of playing the game.
Tiger Woods

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy Graham

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham