Henry James Byron

Henry James Byron (8 January 1835 – 11 April 1884) was a prolific English dramatist, as well as an editor, journalist, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor.

• This gardener's rule applies to youth and age,
  When young sow wild oats, but when old grow sage.
  • The Pilgrim of Love! (1860)

• Life's too short for chess.
  • Our Boys (1875), act 1

William Davenport Adams (ed.) English Epigrams (London, [1878]), pp. 249, 269

• Love levels all,—it elevates the clown,
  And often brings the fattest people down.
  • "On Love"

• The least drop in the world I do not mind:
  "Cognac"'s a noun I never yet declin'd.
  • "Grammatical"

• Smart soldiers like to be well tightened in:
  Loose habits would destroy all discipline.
  • "Military"

• My dog, who picks up everything one teaches,
  Has got "three heads," like Mr. Gladstone's speeches,
  But, as might naturally be expected,
  His are considerably more connected.
  • "Cerberus"

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• "The Young Sow Wild Oats. The Old Grow Sage", QuoteInvestigator (2 April 2017)