Port Byron

Famous quotes containing the words port and/or byron:

“In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,
Is much more common where the climate’s sultry.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)