“Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!”

— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812), Canto II, stanza 23

About Lord Byron

1788 – 1824

English Romantic poet, author of 'Don Juan' and 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'.

“When we think we lead, we are most led.”

“I am not now that which I have been.”

“The busy have no time for tears.”

“Youth is intoxication without wine.”

“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”

“I wish you all the joy that you can wish.”

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“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

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“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”