Famous Robert Burton Quotations

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"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague."
by Robert Burton
"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."
by Robert Burton
"A good conscience is a continual feast."
by Robert Burton
"Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
(Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior Ense Patet)"
by Robert Burton
"Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword."
by 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."
by Robert Burton
"No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread."
by Robert Burton
"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses."
by Robert Burton
"Penny wise, pound foolish."
by Robert Burton
"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long."
by Robert Burton
"The devil is the author of confusion."
by Robert Burton
"England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes."
by Robert Burton
"They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud."
by Robert Burton
"A mere scholar, a mere ass."
by Robert Burton
"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."
by Robert Burton
"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."
by Robert Burton


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