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- Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The only paradise is paradise lost.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
- Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
- I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)
- Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.
- Lord Jeffery
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
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