Quotes about Man by George Gordon Byron

George Gordon Byron British Poet

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

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I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

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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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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.

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What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

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Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon - the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.

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