82 Quotes by Robert Burton

Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy

Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness

To enlarge and illustrate this - is to set a candle in the sun.

I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself

Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven

I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy.

That which is a law today is none tomorrow

Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing

We can say nothing but what hath been said