Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long… — Harry Graham Copy Share Image
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I do not now begin,--I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Copy Share Image
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds'… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part.… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are!… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true. — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present! — John Newton Copy Share Image