All Robert Burton Quotes
- [T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself. Canst
- A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. Blow
- A quiet mind cureth all. All
- A good conscience is a continual feast. Conscience
- Idleness is an appendix to nobility. Appendix
- Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. All
- Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own Believes
- Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full… Agony
- Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges. Charges
- They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. Books
- Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man… Any
- Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven Destiny
- Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases hereafter, some of them in… Busy
- That which is a law today is none tomorrow Law
- Good laws are begot by bad actions Actions
- One was never married and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague Hell
- Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe,… Causeth
- What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. Adorning
- It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us Betrayal
- One religion is as true as another One