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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b7526f8 | It is most true, stylus virum arguit,--our style bewrays us. | Robert Burton | ||
| 2babd03 | I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones. | Robert Burton | ||
| b01dd0d | Like the watermen that row one way and look another. | Robert Burton | ||
| 030f9ef | Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes. | Robert Burton | ||
| 1b5104e | Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself. | Robert Burton | ||
| 96813e1 | Rob Peter, and pay Paul. | Robert Burton | ||
| 2439268 | Penny wise, pound foolish. | Robert Burton | ||
| 9e81d9a | Women wear the breeches. | Robert Burton | ||
| eb63348 | Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs. | Robert Burton | ||
| 65fcfe2 | Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him. | Robert Burton | ||
| 24b2645 | Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long. | Robert Burton | ||
| df904ef | Can build castles in the air. | Robert Burton | ||
| 39ad038 | No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. | Robert Burton | ||
| f53f217 | Idleness is an appendix to nobility. | Robert Burton | ||
| a0c4ddf | A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. | Robert Burton | ||
| bab2f32 | They do not live but linger. | Robert Burton | ||
| e20a509 | Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring. | Robert Burton | ||
| a395535 | The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors. | Robert Burton | ||
| 9cd2a71 | A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich. | Robert Burton | ||
| c86f561 | They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud. | Robert Burton | ||
| 19c9eec | We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars. | Robert Burton | ||
| 3e91f9e | Hinc quam sic calamus saevior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword. | Robert Burton | ||
| 34a3db0 | See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. | Robert Burton | ||
| 1690f13 | One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. | Robert Burton | ||
| 75e2765 | Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty. | Robert Burton | ||
| 161b28f | Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. | Robert Burton | ||
| 74db23c | Like him in AEsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel. | Robert Burton | ||
| 825e499 | Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man. | Robert Burton | ||
| a802f0d | Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop. | Robert Burton | ||
| 437a475 | Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun. | Robert Burton | ||
| 947d59e | Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing. | Robert Burton | ||
| f9f5ffa | Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,--the one to be held by, the other not. | Robert Burton | ||
| f4c12ea | Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her. | Robert Burton | ||
| 92c0ea8 | Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. | Robert Burton | ||
| a23c6d4 | Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end. | Robert Burton | ||
| e42eedd | And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard. | Robert Burton | ||
| b96757a | Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all. | Robert Burton | ||
| 24e7758 | No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. | Robert Burton | ||
| 5826c94 | To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. | Robert Burton | ||
| 85ec240 | Diogenes struck the father when the son swore, because he taught him no better. | Robert Burton | ||
| 85b0958 | To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance. | Robert Burton | ||
| 55a695b | I light my candle from their torches. | Robert Burton | ||
| 2c9178a | The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill. | Robert Burton | ||
| 00d5eb1 | Make a virtue of necessity. | Robert Burton |