"A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may lay it in the dust. "
- Lord [Gordon] Byron (1788 - 1824)

"Good but rarely came from good advice."
- Lord [Gordon] Byron (1788 - 1824)

"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."
- Lord [Gordon] Byron (1788 - 1824)

"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence."
- Lord [Gordon] Byron (1788 - 1824)

"Nothing is so difficult as a beginning in poesy, unless perhaps the end."
- Lord [Gordon] Byron (1788 - 1824)

"Now Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste, but they detest leisure."
- Lord [Gordon] Byron (1788 - 1824)

"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes Sin's a pleasure."
- Lord [Gordon] Byron (1788 - 1824)

"Ready money is Aladdin's lamp."
- Lord [Gordon] Byron (1788 - 1824)