Quotes by Lord Byron
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!
John Adams lies here, of the parish of Southwell, a carrier who carried his can to his mouth well; he carried so much, and he carried so fast, he could carry no more - so was carried at last; for the liquor he drank, being too much for one, he could not carry off - so he's now carri-on.
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
But - Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all?
The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so - or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
