Quotes
Quotes - Byron
They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I now know that they mean money.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
The dew of compassion is a tear.
In solitude, when we are least alone.
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.
The dew of compassion is a tear.
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debtsâyou have no idea of the pain it gives one.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
Hatred is the madness of the heart.
Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
History is the devil's scripture.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer.
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
