Quotes
Quotes - Burton
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer.... Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
It is most true, stylus virum arguit,--our style bewrays us.
I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.
As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.
Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
Rob Peter, and pay Paul.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Women wear the breeches.
Like Æsop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.
Our wrangling lawyers... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,--some of them in hell.
Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.
Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.
[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.
Can build castles in the air.
Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain.... And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on.
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
