Robert Burton Quotes

Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.

A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.

The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.

As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.

Be not solitary, be not idle.

I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.

One religion is as true as another.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Many things happen between the cup and the lip.

Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.

Birds of a feather will gather together.