Quote by Robert Burton Download Open image ““knaves and fools commonly fare and deserve best in worldlings' eyes and opinions.”” — Robert Burton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There are people in the world who begin by being fools and end in being knaves. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of peasants shows itself in their ability to pretend that they are fools.” — Shūsaku Endō Copy Share Image
“Fools often mistake disrespect for showmanship, thinking that arrogance and bluster will earn them admiration. In truth, they only reveal their lack of class… — Erick "The Black Sheep" G Copy Share Image
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“[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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
![“[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 and illiterate scribblers, that either write for vain-glory, need, to get money, or as Parasites to flatter and collogue with some great men, they…” quote by Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/792/robert-burton-10069_books_e-very-man-hath-liberty-to-write-but-few_213260.jpg)
