Quote of the Day (Lord Byron, on the Power of Words)

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,

 Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces

 That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”—English poet Lord Byron (1788-1824), Don Juan, Canto III (1821)

Quote of the Day (Lord Byron, on Our Unsatisfied Need for Heroes)

“I want a hero: an uncommon want, 

  When every year and month sends forth a new one, 

Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, 

  The age discovers he is not the true one.”— Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I (1819)

Quote of the Day (Lord Byron, on Jealous Husbands)

“A real husband always is suspicious,
But still no less suspects in the wrong place,
Jealous of some one who had no such wishes,
Or pandering blindly to his own disgrace,
By harbouring some dear friend extremely vicious;
The last indeed's infallibly the case:
And when the spouse and friend are gone off wholly,
He wonders at their vice, and not his folly.”—George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto the First