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Robert Burton
114 quotes
“One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base [born].”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.”
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“Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Christ himself was poor... And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many things happen between the cup and the lip.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All places are distant from heaven alike.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Birds of a feather will gather together.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.”
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“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”
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“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore, because he taught him no better.”
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“He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.”
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“[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.”
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“Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though it rain daggers with their points downward.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Going as if he trod upon eggs.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I light my candle from their torches.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.”
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“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Make a virtue of necessity.”
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“Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.”
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“If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.”
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“For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.”
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“The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.”
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“Out of too much learning become mad.”
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“The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.”
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“One religion is as true as another.”
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“Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness.”
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