More Quotes by Lord Byron
What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
Happiness was born a twin.
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.
But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Life is too short for chess.
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
The best prophet of the future is the past.
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
