It's a classic story of, well, losing love, told with the kind of theatrical aplomb which connects all the records in this list.
"Those three weeks at Yale, with you, now seem even more like a paradise lost," he told him.
"I think everyone lost," Richard Holbrooke told me.
"Here's how I can lose," Graham told me when I met with him in early April at the annual banquet of Quail Unlimited, an appropriately genteel, environmentally sensitive hunting group.
"We went in there in the quarter-final with nothing to lose," Hardie told BBC Scotland.
The Labour Party lost with honour, he told his supporters, "Don't mourn this loss, organise for a win in the general election later this year".
"That's usually an indication that you think you're going to lose," Mr. Romney told reporters traveling with him, referring to Mr. Gingrich's pledge to keep fighting all the way to the convention.
"I told the judge that when Bernard Madoff leaves prison, which means after his death, that he will then go down to the depths of hell where he'll join those other people who are in the mouths of Satan," Burt Ross, the former mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., who lost $5 million with Mr. Madoff, told the crowded press corps outside the courthouse.
"The jokes about Jesus were in pretty poor taste and the drunken performances at midnight mass lost touch with reality," he told The Guardian.
"I lost $9,000," Peñalosa told VICE, referring to the fine associated with his arrest.
