Alas Quotes

349 quotes by 271 authors

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. — Karen Armstrong
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge… — Aeschylus
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to… — James L. Buckley
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. — Albert Camus
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. — Miguel de Cervantes
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it. — George Carlin
Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer! — Louis Untermeyer
Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping… — George Arnold
Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will! — William Shakespeare
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when… — Tom Robbins
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! — Horace
But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it… — William Shakespeare
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today. — Thomas Gray
Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends. — Thomas Adams
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this… — Frederic Bastiat
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. — Alexander Pope

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