Famous quotes containing the word lost:
“Sad mortals! thus the gods still plague you!
He lost his labor, I my jest;
For he was drowned, and Ive the ague.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“What though he did not belong to your clique! Though you may not approve of his method or his principles, recognize his magnanimity. Would you not like to claim kindredship with him in that, though in no other thing he is like, or likely, to you? Do you think that you would lose your reputation so? What you lost at the spile, you would gain at the bung.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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