Wit Without Quotes by Robert Burton

More Quotes by Robert Burton

Robert Burton has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
• To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
• A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
• Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.
• Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases hereafter, some…
• If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart
• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great…
• Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as…

See all 40 quotes by Robert Burton »