Robert Burton Quotes

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

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

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.

All places are distant from heaven alike.