39 Quotes by Richard Francis Burton

The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle.

For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.

When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.