George Gordon Byron Famous Quotes
"To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain."
"For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'dAnd the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still"
Adversity is the first path to truth.
"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."
They never fail who die in a great cause.
"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."
"For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn"
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
"There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."
"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
"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."
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five
"And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description."
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly
"Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler."
"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
"I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever"
"Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire."
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem-and in my esteem age is not estimable.
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
George Gordon Byron Quotations
Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
Robert Henri
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Rabbi Abraham Heschel
"I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth."
Chief Joseph
"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."
Cato the Elder
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson
"If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door."
Thomas Secker
"If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before."
Mitchell Burgess
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Honore de Balzac
"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"You can't change who you are, but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought, act on it."
Emma Bunton