English scholar & author (1577-1640)
One religion is as true as another.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
All poets are mad.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
The fear of some divine and supreme powers, keeps men in obedience.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
We can say nothing but what hath been said.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Be ever courteous should the case allow--sweet malt is ever made by gentle fire.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
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
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
A quiet mind cureth all.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Of woman's unnatural, insatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
I'll change my state with any wretch,
Thou canst from jail or dunghill fetch;
My pain's past cure, another hell,
I may not in this torment dwell!
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
All places are distant from heaven alike.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
What can't be cured must be endured.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Birds of a feather will gather together.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Riches do not so much exhilarate us with their possession, as they torment us with their loss.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy