Robert Burton Quotes
1577 – 1640
English scholar, author of "The Anatomy of Melancholy".
24 quotesAbout Robert Burton on Wikipedia
“All my joys to this are folly / Naught so sweet as melancholy.”
“A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.”
“The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.”
“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”
“Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.”
“Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.”
“They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.”
“See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.”
“Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.”
“Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.”
“No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.”
