Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
LORD BYRON
LORD BYRON
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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.
Lord ByronLord Byron I awoke one day to find myself famous.
Lord ByronLord Byron O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
Lord ByronLord Byron Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Lord ByronLord Byron I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
Lord ByronLord Byron Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
Lord ByronLord Byron A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
Lord ByronLord Byron Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Lord ByronLord Byron I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
Lord ByronLord Byron Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Lord ByronLord Byron If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
Lord ByronLord Byron Absence – that common cure of love.
Lord ByronLord Byron Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Lord ByronLord Byron And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
Lord ByronLord Byron If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
Lord ByronLord Byron There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Lord ByronLord Byron
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
Bernard MalamudBernard Malamud Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa, and of an aphrodisiac nature.
Bernal Diaz del CastilloBernal Diaz del Castillo I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don’t remember what I said last night.
Shaquille O'NealShaquille O'Neal You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn’t matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It’s not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.
Shaquille O'NealShaquille O'Neal A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
Alan KingAlan King I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
Aimee BenderAimee Bender But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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