Robert Burton Quotes
Most popular Robert Burton Quotes
Matches are made in heaven.
Make a virtue of necessity.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.
If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
It is an old saying, "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, they still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
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 bo commonly together.
Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.
