Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. Votes: 3
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonAlas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. Votes: 3
John Godfrey SaxeAlas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. Votes: 3
Karen ArmstrongVirtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee! Votes: 3
Marcus Junius Brutus the YoungerAlas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. Votes: 3
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAlas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people. Votes: 3
Vittorio AlfieriAlas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere. Votes: 3
Letitia Elizabeth LandonAlas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human. Votes: 3
Mirza Asadullah Khan GhalibAlas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour! Votes: 3
Sarah SiddonsAlas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear. Votes: 3
David BrinAlas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close! Votes: 3
Omar KhayyamMemory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget! Votes: 3
Ninon de L'EnclosAlas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeAlas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth. Votes: 3
Jack ZipesAlas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends. Votes: 3
Thomas AdamsAlas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will! Votes: 3
William ShakespeareTime, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. Votes: 3
Hector BerliozAlas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauWhat can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeAlas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be Votes: 3
William ShakespeareHow can I no longer bear my weary doom? Alas! what have I gain'd for all I lost? Votes: 3
Maria Gowen BrooksAlas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you." Votes: 3
Emily PostAlas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. Votes: 3
SophoclesAlas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings. Votes: 3
Charles SpurgeonYou do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! Votes: 3
Charles LambAlas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauAlas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonAlas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy. Votes: 3
John B. TabbIdealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. Votes: 1
Sidney HookPoetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. Votes: 1
Vincent Van Goghalas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time! Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonThe Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible. Votes: 0
Robert Baldwin Ross...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill. Votes: 0
Lloyd AlexanderCommon sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeSatire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Votes: 0
Alexander PopeI have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. Votes: 0
Sydney Smith... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit. Votes: 0
Elizabeth InchbaldThe dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas. Votes: 0
Emily DickinsonThe form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireIn a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. Votes: 0
Barbara AmielWriting is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice. Votes: 0
Nancy MairsThose that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings! Votes: 0
Thomas Haynes BaylyHabit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. Votes: 0
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeIs that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeEventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it. Votes: 0
George CarlinFun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue. Votes: 0
Saul Bellowtwo souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. Votes: 0
Michel HouellebecqMy soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God. Votes: 0
Henry MartynIndeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long. Votes: 0
Hannah MoreThe old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart). Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireAnd then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done. Votes: 0
J. R. R. TolkienThe artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMuchas palabras han recorrido un largo camino a pie antes de conseguir sus alas.
Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal)Abrázame en tus alas para que otro aire no me roce sino tu aliento, del que vivo y muero
Antonio GalaPorque la tortuga tiene los pies seguros, ¿es ésta una razón para cortar las alas al águila?
Edgar Allan PoeLa imaginación abre a veces unas alas grandes como el cielo en una cárcel grande como la mano.
Alfred de MussetAl amor lo pintan ciego y con alas. Ciego para no ver los obstáculos, con alas para salvarlos.
Jacinto BenaventeAl amor lo pintan ciego y con alas. Ciego para no ver los obstáculos y con alas para salvarlos.
Jacinto BenaventeAl amor le pintan ciego y con alas. Ciego, para no ver los obstáculos; con alas, para salvarlos.
Jacinto Benavente¿Cómo comer sin ti, sin la piadosa costumbre de tus alas que refrescan el aire y renuevan la luz?
Antonio GalaVale más que en ansias de volar te broten alas, que no estés en tierra con tu único pájaro en mano
Miguel de Unamuno