Lord Byron Quotes

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

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• There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Past
  • Temptation
  • Ornament

• Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

  

  Larry David
  • American
  • Food
  • Lunch

• It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Happy
  • Growing
  • Be Happy

• When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

  

  Lance Loud
  • World
  • Family
  • Friends

• Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Matter

• Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • India
  • Some
  • Nationalism

• Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Because

• I'm a typical California boy.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Boy
  • California
  • Typical

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Love
  • Religion
  • For Him

• I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
  • Success
  • Miserable

• I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Look
  • Walk
  • View

• All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Good
  • Give
  • Ourselves

• By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Country
  • Better
  • Broken

• Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • May

• Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are living in a dream world. Such persons are, in a very real sense, not sane.

  

  Gerald Holton
  • Dream
  • Persons
  • Existence

• I am a really great daughter.

  

  Millie Bobby Brown
  • Daughter
  • Really

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.

  

  Dave Barry
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Anxiety

• He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Laughter
  • Globe

• Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Laughter
  • Wise Man
  • Confound