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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim
I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in
Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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 with one dash wipes the picture away.
As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest.
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.
Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.
Time passes you say, But no! Alas, time is staying and we pass by.
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!
While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.
The night is dark, the waters deep,
Yet soft the billows roll;
Alas! at every breeze I weep —
The storm is in my soul.
Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.
Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
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 encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.
Thomas Bowman's toupee, alas, was never found. He was somewhat mollified by the gift of a very fine hat from Westcliff on Christmas day.
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
And soon the grassy coverlet of God
Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in the world.
Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.
When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.