Quotes by : Robert Burton

A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it,....

No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean....

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay....

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real....

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean....