Lord Byron Quotes

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

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• Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Why
  • Free

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Flying
  • Line
  • Desk

• I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Love
  • Dress
  • Hat

• Events are not a matter of chance.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Chance
  • Matter
  • Events

• I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Plant
  • Seen
  • Pilot

• I always try to write the best I can.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Best
  • Try
  • I Can

• Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Best

• Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Future
  • Proud

• Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Nice
  • Dumb
  • Grow

• And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Better
  • Pictures
  • Early

• What is dreaming, and what happens, and are there any real benefits to dreaming? Well, to take a step back, I think it's important to note that dreaming essentially is a time when we all become flagrantly psychotic.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Time
  • Important
  • Real

• I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • God
  • Children
  • She

• The progressive Islamisation of our country and the increase in political-religious demands are calling into question the survival of our civilisation.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Country
  • Political
  • Question

• Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you're able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing what you can do.

  

  David Belle
  • Practice

• I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

  

  Lester Cole
  • Poet
  • Sword
  • Samurai

• I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • God
  • Black
  • Responsibility

• The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

  

  Richard Paul Evans
  • Spiritual
  • Something
  • Healing

• The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Life
  • Return

• I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and I have nothing to show for it. No treasure house of collection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

  

  S. J. Watson
  • Life
  • Experience
  • House

• One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.

  

  Homer
  • Judgment
  • Treasure
  • Fighter

• It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Important
  • Relax

• Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Treasure
  • Sages
  • Moralist