They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
LORD BYRONReason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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