“'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s”
Lord Byron
“When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?”
Oliver Goldsmith
“To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking”
Alcaeus
“All my joys to this are folly, / Naught so sweet as melancholy.”
Robert Burton
“Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!”
John Milton
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
Anatole France
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
Aristotle
