Robert Burton Quotes

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton
To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
Robert Burton
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton
To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
Robert Burton
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
Robert Burton
Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
Robert Burton
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Robert Burton
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.
Robert Burton
If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.
Robert Burton
They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.
Robert Burton
No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.
Robert Burton
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
Robert Burton
I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.
Robert Burton
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
Robert Burton
That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.
Robert Burton
All Poets are mad.
Robert Burton
A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
Robert Burton