S.A. Bent, comp. Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men. 1887.
Thomas Moore
[An Irish poet; born in Dublin, 1779; translated the Odes of Anacreon, 1801; visited the United States, 1804; published “Lalla Rookh,” 1812; “The Life of Byron,” 1830; died 1852.]
When asked at dinner why love was like a potato. Byron’s answer was, “Because it becomes less by pairing.”
When told that Byron’s friend, Lady Caroline Lamb, had knocked down a page in a fit of passion, Moore remarked, “Nothing is more natural than for a literary lady to double down a page.”
