Melancholy Quotes by Robert Burton

“...those impious epicures, libertines, atheists, hypocrites, infidels, worldly, secure, impenitent, unthankful, and carnal-minded men, that attribute all to natural causes, that will acknowledge no…

— Robert Burton

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

— Robert Burton

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

— Robert Burton

“To The Reader Who Employs His Leisure Ill Whoever you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this work, or…

— Robert Burton

“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.”

— Robert Burton

Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a…

— Robert Burton

Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven

— Robert Burton

“Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.”

— Robert Burton

“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base…

— Robert Burton

That which is a law today is none tomorrow

— Robert Burton

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

— Robert Burton

“knaves and fools commonly fare and deserve best in worldlings' eyes and opinions.”

— Robert Burton

“as{268} Petrarch observes, we change language, habits, laws, customs, manners, but not vices, not diseases, not the symptoms of folly and madness, they are…

— Robert Burton

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes

— Robert Burton

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

— Robert Burton