“And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep.”

— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1821), Canto IV, stanza 4

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.”

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

“Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.”

“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”

“Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.”

“Confine yourself to the present.”

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”