Robert Burton quotes Born: 02/08/1577 Died: 01/25/1640 Country: united_kingdom

• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. (Robert Burton) [men/willpower/power]
• No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. (Robert Burton) [love]
• One religion is as true as another. (Robert Burton) [religion]
• 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, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy. (Robert Burton) [men/melancholy/music/melancholy]
• Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own. (Robert Burton) [truth]
• Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. (Robert Burton) [marriage]
• Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. (Robert Burton)
• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. (Robert Burton) [feelings/willpower/take/faith]
• A good conscience is a continual feast. (Robert Burton) [conscience/feast]
• Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. (Robert Burton) [sin/pleasure/willpower/excuse]
• Why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters? Because every man of any fashion amongst them hath his mistress. (Robert Burton) [day/poets/fashion]
• England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes. (Robert Burton) [paradise/women/paradise/women]
• A quiet mind cureth all. (Robert Burton) [mind]
• All poets are mad. (Robert Burton) [poets]
• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. (Robert Burton) [men/anxiety/reach/top]
• Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. (Robert Burton) [enemies]
• A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. (Robert Burton)
• The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience. (Robert Burton) [fear/men/obedience]
• We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. (Robert Burton)
• A good husband makes a good wife. (Robert Burton) [wife]
• There is something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive. (Robert Burton) [human/delight/virtue/quality]
• The fear of death is worse than death. (Robert Burton) [fear/death/death]
• The devil is the author of confusion. (Robert Burton)
• They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud. (Robert Burton) [humility]
• No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. (Robert Burton) [love]
• Idleness is an appendix to nobility. (Robert Burton) [idleness/generosity]
• England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women. (Robert Burton) [paradise/women/paradise/women]
• A mere scholar, a mere ass. (Robert Burton)
• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. (Robert Burton) [men/anxiety/reach/top]
• I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. (Robert Burton) [human/wine/women/people]
• A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. (Robert Burton)

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