All Thomas Browne Quotes
- Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue… Argue
- A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of… Any
- He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe. Graves
- Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Forty
- There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end. Beginning
- Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let… Adorn
- To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the… Advent
- He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals). Christian
- Rich with the spoils of nature. Inspirational
- There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. Cantons
- I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen. Basilisk
- The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence. Among
- A wise man is out of the reach of fortune. Fortune
- The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein… Counterfeit
- There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered… Ear
- Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the… Account
- No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. Censure
- Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man. Art
- Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided… Creatures
- By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. Compassion