Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
LORD BYRONSorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
LORD BYRONOne of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
LORD BYRONGood work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
LORD BYRONAll tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
LORD BYRONI deny nothing, but doubt everything.
LORD BYRONThough I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
LORD BYRONNewton, (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.”
LORD BYRONYou gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
LORD BYRONFor truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRONI slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
LORD BYRONGone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
LORD BYRONReason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
LORD BYRONIf from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
LORD BYRONThis is the age of oddities let loose.
LORD BYRONI stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
LORD BYRONSelf praise is no praise at all.
LORD BYRON