1576-1640, British Clergyman, Scholar
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton – [Words]
A mere scholar, a mere ass.
Robert Burton – [Scholars and Scholarship]
England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.
Robert Burton – [Nationalities and Nationalism]
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 – [Wine]
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton – [Idleness]
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 – [Ambition]
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton – [Love]
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton – [Marriage]
The devil is the author of confusion.
Robert Burton – [Devil]
The fear of death is worse than death.
Robert Burton – [Death and Dying]
They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
Robert Burton – [Humility]
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
Robert Burton – [Smoking]
What can't be cured must be endured.
Robert Burton – [Medicine]