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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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
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I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the old man vehemently. "Not only are they devilishly cruel but they are not even common sense. They do not lesson the evil in the world, they increase it, by making those who handle these cruelties as wicked as those who suffer them. No, I'm wrong, more wicked, for there is always some expiation made in the endurance of suffering and none at all in the infliction of it.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
Lord Byron
