Quotes from The Anatomy of Melancholy — Robert Burton
1577–1640 England
110 quotes
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.
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.
Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.
He is born naked, and falls a whining at the first.
Attribution
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