Lord Byron Quotes
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The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.
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The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (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."
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.
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Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.
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One hates an author that's all author.
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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
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Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.
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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
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Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.
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Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.
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Though the day of my Destiny 's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find.
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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I see before me the gladiator lie.
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Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
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For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.
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And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.
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Land of lost gods and godlike men.
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