Lord Byron

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

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

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

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

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

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

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Absence - that common cure of love.