Our Friends Robert Burton Quotes
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~ Robert Burton Quote
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
~ Robert Burton Quote
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
~ Robert Burton Quote
They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.
~ Robert Burton Quote
I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.
~ Robert Burton Quote
He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay
~ Robert Burton Quote
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
~ Robert Burton Quote
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
~ Robert Burton Quote
He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
~ Robert Burton Quote
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
~ Robert Burton Quote
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
~ Robert Burton Quote
If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.
~ Robert Burton Quote
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
~ Robert Burton Quote
It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.
~ Robert Burton Quote
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
~ Robert Burton Quote