"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all." - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) in 'The Way of All Flesh'

"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

"I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." - Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

"'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), The Way of All Flesh

"For `tis a truth well known to most,
That whatsoever thing is lost
We seek it, ere it come to light,
In every cranny but the right."
- WILLIAM COWPER, The Retired Cat

"There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain." - PLAUTUS, The Captives

"He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all."
- SHAKESPEARE, Othello

"Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms."
- SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI, Part III

"Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear."
- SHAKESPEARE, All's Well That Ends Well

"And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!"
- ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Break, Break, Break

"A coin, sleeve-button or a collar-button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed can't be found." - MARK TWAIN, Notebooks