When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter,"
And proved it,--'t was no matter what he said.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
-- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza 1
And proved it,--'t was no matter what he said.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
-- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza 1
Related:
- And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but
The truth in masquerade.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza... - Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore.
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Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza... - What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger
Is woman!
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ix, Stanza... - T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza... - In my hot youth, when George the Third was king.
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Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza... - The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences,
and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all... - He was the mildest manner'd man
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iii, Stanza... - What is the end of fame? 'T is but to fill
A certain portion of uncertain paper.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza... - Alas, the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ii, Stanza...
From the same category:
- Year, n.:
A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - I had to hit him --
he was starting to make sense... - The accident happened when the right front door of
a car came around the corner without giving any signal... - LISP is a recursive language--first you curse,
then you recurse... - He's ALIVE, Jim.
Where did I go wrong...
