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
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.
He is born naked, and falls a whining at the first.
Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Who cannot give good counsel? 'tis cheap, it cost them nothing.
Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not.
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Burton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.