Robert Burton Quotes

All our geese are swans.

Birds of a feather will gather together.

Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.

Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us.

Women wear the breeches.

For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.

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

As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.

Though it rain daggers with their points downward.

Our wrangling lawyers... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,—some of them in hell.

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

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.