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Lost Quotes - Page 28

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

To live is to feel oneself lost.

"The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XIV: "Who Rules The World?", 1929.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.322

Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.147

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

Religions get lost as people do.

Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

To be human is to be lost in the woods.

Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.19, Random House

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

Edward Lee Thorndike (1898). “Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals”