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....

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

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

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....

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....