Lord Byron Quotes
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
Lord Byron
Quotes to Explore
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle
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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.
J. P. Morgan
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Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
Vladimir Kramnik
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If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.
Vladimir Nabokov
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It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
Epictetus
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
Albert Einstein
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Oscar Wilde
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After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.
Baruch Spinoza
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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.
Charles Dickens
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A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.
Jostein Gaarder
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Of course prostitutes have babies. Where do you think traffic wardens come from?
Dave Dutton
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
Lord Byron
