| A good conscience is a continual feast. Robert Burton |
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All my joys to this are folly,
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Robert Burton |
| England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes. Robert Burton Remarks |
| Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. Robert Burton Popular Quotes |
| Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both Robert Burton Popular Quotes |
| Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. Robert Burton |
| He loves who advises Robert Burton |
| I have laboriously collected this cento out of diverse writers. I have wronged no authors but given every man his own.... Bees do little harm and damage no one in extracting honey; I can say of myself, whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine.... it becomes something different in its new setting. Robert Burton |
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| If there be a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart. Robert Burton Quotes |
| 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 |
| Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven Robert Burton Popular Quotes |
| Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness Robert Burton Quotes |
| No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. Robert Burton |
| No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. Robert Burton |
| One religion is as true as another Robert Burton |
| One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. Robert Burton Adages |
| Penny wise, pound foolish. Robert Burton Quotations |
| Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. Robert Burton |
| The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. Robert Burton |
| They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. Robert Burton |
| True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. Robert Burton Remarks |
| Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own Robert Burton |
