Robert Burton quotes

A good conscience is a continual feast. (Robert Burton)
All poets are mad.
Robert Burton
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
Robert Burton
We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Robert Burton
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
Robert Burton
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
Robert Burton
One religion is as true as another.
Robert Burton
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Robert Burton
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
Robert Burton
I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. (Robert Burton)
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.
Robert Burton
[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.
Robert Burton
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
Robert Burton
Be not solitary, be not idle.
Robert Burton
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton
Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,-the one to be held by, the other not.
Robert Burton
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes. (Robert Burton)
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
Robert Burton
We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer... Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
Robert Burton
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
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.
Robert Burton