Lord Byron Quotes
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A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.
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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
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I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse - borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne - misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be - let it end.
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Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.
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The very best of vineyards is the cellar.
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There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.
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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
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A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.
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He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.
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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.
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Fare thee well! and if forever,Still forever, fare thee well:Even though unforgiving, never'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.
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Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease!He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."
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Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.