He who slings mud generally loses ground.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

- Coco Chanel

Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

- Erik Erikson

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

- Friedrich Schiller

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

- George Bernard Shaw

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.

- Geezer Butler

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

- John Oliver

It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

- James Hetfield

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

- James Keller

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

- Michel de Montaigne

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

- Martin L. Gross

I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.

- Peyton Reed

Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.

- Robert Gottlieb

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

- Sherry Argov