Quotes by : Robert Burton

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.....

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

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

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

If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.

To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human....

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

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

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