Robert Burton Quotes
1577–1640 England
Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English writer and scholar at Oxford University (at Christ Church), known chiefly for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy.
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Also known as: Burton, Robert
119 quotes
A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.
The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
Birds of a feather will gather together.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.
Like Æsop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Be fearful only of thyself, and stand in awe of none more than thine own conscience.
Of woman's unnatural, insatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?
Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.
They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Burton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.