219 Quotes by Thomas Browne

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.