--- title: "1 Men Virtuous Quotes By Robert Burton" description: "1 Men Virtuous quotes by Robert Burton. Plus more from Robert Burton and more Men Virtuous sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/robert-burton-10069_laughed_hippocrates-asked-the-reason-why-he-laug_3076634.jpg" --- > [“Hippocrates asked the reason why he laughed. He told him, at the vanities and the fopperies of the time, to see men so empty of all virtuous actions, to hunt so far after gold, having no end of ambition; to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/hippocrates-asked-the-reason-why-he-laughed-he-told-him-at-the/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/robert-burton-10069_laughed_hippocrates-asked-the-reason-why-he-laug_3076634.jpg) ## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/those-impious-epicures-libertines-atheists-hypocrites-infidels/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burton/) > [The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/the-men-who-succeed-are-the-efficient-few-they-are-the-few-who-have/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burton/) > [We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/we-can-make-mayors-and-officers-every-year-but-not-scholars/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/to-the-reader-who-employs-his-leisure-ill-whoever-you-may-be-i/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burton/) > [“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/who-hath-desires-must-ever-fearful-be-who-lives-in-fear-cannot-be/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/health-indeed-is-a-precious-thing-to-recover-and-preserve-which-we/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burton/) > [Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/marriage-and-hanging-go-by-destiny-matches-are-made-in-heaven/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burton/) > [“Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/wine-is-strong-the-king-is-strong-women-are-strong-but-truth/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/e-very-man-hath-liberty-to-write-but-few-ability-heretofore-learning/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burton/) > [That which is a law today is none tomorrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/that-which-is-a-law-today-is-none-tomorrow/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burton/) > [Idleness is an appendix to nobility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/idleness-is-an-appendix-to-nobility/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burton/) > [“knaves and fools commonly fare and deserve best in worldlings' eyes and opinions.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/knaves-and-fools-commonly-fare-and-deserve-best-in-worldlings-eyes/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/as-268-petrarch-observes-we-change-language-habits-laws-customs/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/england-is-a-paradise-for-women-and-hell-for-horses-italy-is-a/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burton/) > [One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/one-was-never-married-and-that-s-his-hell-another-is-and-that-s-his/) [Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men-virtuous/robert-burton/#itemlist", "name": "1 Men Virtuous Quotes By Robert Burton", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Hippocrates asked the reason why he laughed. 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