Quotes
Quotes - Burton
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
They do not live but linger.
[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.
[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.
Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.
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.
A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.
I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.
All our geese are swans.
Though they [philosophers] write contemptu gloriæ, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books.
They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.
We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars; kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed.
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword.
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."
See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons.
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.
Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.
Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base [born].
