Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.
Lord Byron
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BIBLE But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
JOHN MILTON Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
MALCOLM FORBES Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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-...
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More Lord Byron
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...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRON Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
LORD BYRON Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD BYRON If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD BYRON There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
LORD BYRON Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD BYRON And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
LORD BYRON It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year im...
LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
LORD BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
LORD BYRON Absence - that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD BYRON And when we think we lead, we are most led.
LORD BYRON Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all th...
LORD BYRON I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever
LORD BYRON I wish he would explain his explanation
LORD BYRON All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON Fame is the thirst of youth.
LORD BYRON For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a ti...
LORD BYRON Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
LORD BYRON Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah gi...
LORD BYRON I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
LORD BYRON The dew of compassion is a tear.
LORD BYRON Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
LORD BYRON I love not man the less, but Nature more.
LORD BYRON Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
LORD BYRON Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not t...
LORD BYRON The heart will break, but broken live on.
LORD BYRON Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, st...
LORD BYRON There is no instinct like that of the heart.
LORD BYRON Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
LORD BYRON The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
LORD BYRON There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society wher...
LORD BYRON A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only ...
LORD BYRON I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at...
LORD BYRON I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervant...
LORD BYRON Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
LORD BYRON The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
LORD BYRON Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of ...
LORD BYRON The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
LORD BYRON Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his...
LORD BYRON I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
LORD BYRON This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated wi...
LORD BYRON Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints t...
LORD BYRON Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
LORD BYRON It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
LORD BYRON I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
LORD BYRON If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved ...
LORD BYRON I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
LORD BYRON Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
LORD BYRON I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
LORD BYRON Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
LORD BYRON Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
LORD BYRON Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler
LORD BYRON We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
LORD BYRON Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
LORD BYRON [Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
LORD BYRON How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these hor...
LORD BYRON For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pau...
LORD BYRON A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
LORD BYRON Goodnight
LORD BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote.
LORD BYRON All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
LORD BYRON I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slav...
LORD BYRON In solitude, where we are least alone.
LORD BYRON As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but...
LORD BYRON 'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious
LORD BYRON I am the very slave of circumstance / And impulse - borne away with every breath!
LORD BYRON As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
LORD BYRON Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD BYRON Sweet is revenge - especially to women.
LORD BYRON One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer
LORD BYRON Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD BYRON Dreading that climax of all human ills, / The inflammation of his weekly bills.
LORD BYRON Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I ...
LORD BYRON There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fev...
LORD BYRON A tigress robb'd of young, a lioness, Or any interesting beast of prey, Are similes at hand for the ...
LORD BYRON I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
LORD BYRON Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in cour...
LORD BYRON The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
LORD BYRON I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
LORD BYRON A light broke in upon my brain, - / It was the carol of a bird; / It ceased, and then it came again,...
LORD BYRON Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.
LORD BYRON I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subj...
LORD BYRON I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and ...
LORD BYRON History is the devil's scripture.
LORD BYRON One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I ca...
LORD BYRON Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
LORD BYRON Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
LORD BYRON Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
LORD BYRON Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that porten...
LORD BYRON A man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure - critics all are ready made. / Take hackney...
LORD BYRON It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pict...
LORD BYRON He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
LORD BYRON The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequen...
LORD BYRON He said / Little, but to the purpose.
LORD BYRON The tourture we desire is the greatest of all.
LORD BYRON The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind...
LORD BYRON Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest
LORD BYRON And wrinkles (the damned democrats) won't flatter
LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more - Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore
LORD BYRON Dear Doctor, I have read your play, / Which is a good one in its way, - / Purges the eyes and moves ...
LORD BYRON Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
LORD BYRON The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to pu...
LORD BYRON The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and ...
LORD BYRON I thought it would appear / That there had been a lady in the case.
LORD BYRON Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of...
LORD BYRON The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
LORD BYRON I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over the...
LORD BYRON She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dar...
LORD BYRON All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage
LORD BYRON I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and ...
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...
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