Quotes
Quotes - Burton
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
Make a virtue of necessity.
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.
If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.
Out of too much learning become mad.
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.
When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.
One religion is as true as another.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Put his shoulder to the wheel.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.
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.
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."
Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the Devil.]
Birds of a feather will gather together.
Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild: They follow the beck of a baleful star, Their paths are dream-beguiled.
