“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
Author
Lord Byron
43 quotes
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
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“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”
“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.”
“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
“Who loves, raves.”
“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”
“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
“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.”
“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?”
“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.”