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TOLKIEN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu... DORIS J TORRES Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the ... C. JOYBELL C. Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said. J.R.R. TOLKIEN His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom. J.R.R. 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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. LORD BYRON I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh... LORD BYRON What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom... LORD BYRON Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ... LORD BYRON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ... LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not... LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which... 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LORD BYRON There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if ... LORD BYRON Truth is always strange LORD BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do... LORD BYRON The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! / Where burning Sappho loved and sung, / Where grew the ar... LORD BYRON Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which make... LORD BYRON If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company. LORD BYRON Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company LORD BYRON In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to s... LORD BYRON A man must serve his time to every trade: Save Censure- Critics all are ready made LORD BYRON The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars o... LORD BYRON I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloyin... LORD BYRON I die, - but first I have possessed, / And come what may, I have been blessed. LORD BYRON Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye. LORD BYRON Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. LORD BYRON But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it o... LORD BYRON What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. LORD BYRON Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares ... LORD BYRON But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy w... LORD BYRON The best of prophets of the future is the past LORD BYRON 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. LORD BYRON Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. LORD BYRON Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. LORD BYRON There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron. LORD BYRON Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never LORD BYRON Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar! LORD BYRON Let these describe the indescribable. LORD BYRON To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at ... LORD BYRON I like a woman to talk or I am left with the suspicion that she is thinking. LORD BYRON Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I r... LORD BYRON I awoke one morning and found myself famous. LORD BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote LORD BYRON A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry ... LORD BYRON When we two parted / In silence and tears,/ Half broken-hearted / To sever for years, / Pale grew th... LORD BYRON Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! LORD BYRON The busy have no time for tears. LORD BYRON We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not ye... LORD BYRON What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality... LORD BYRON Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen. LORD BYRON A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anyth... LORD BYRON Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there m... LORD BYRON Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure LORD BYRON There is no sterner moralist than pleasure. LORD BYRON The very best of vineyards is the cellar LORD BYRON As soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June; / Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; / Believ... LORD BYRON Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c... LORD BYRON That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman. LORD BYRON In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love LORD BYRON I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman ... LORD BYRON Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own r... LORD BYRON I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. LORD BYRON In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero. LORD BYRON Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar LORD BYRON I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and de... LORD BYRON The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who w... LORD BYRON I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts. LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart LORD BYRON Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep LORD BYRON Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did LORD BYRON This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. LORD BYRON What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ... LORD BYRON I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand. LORD BYRON Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still LORD BYRON Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage... LORD BYRON