82 Quotes by Robert Burton

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

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

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

Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.