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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Mark Russell
US comedian, political commentator, & satirist (1932 - )

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Jean Kerr

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

Agnes Repplier
US essayist (1855 - 1950)

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Laurence J. Peter
US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Sagan
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996)

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.

Maurice Chapelain

The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.

Jeremy Rifkin

Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall.

David Chambless

Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.

Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

Marlo Thomas

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Laurence J. Peter
US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Eric Nicol

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.

Lord Jeffery

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.

Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles, Ajax
Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC)

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Norman Mailer, "Esquire", June 1960
US journalist & novelist (1923 - )

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