Quotes
Quotes - Burton
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
All places are distant from heaven alike.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.
Build castles in the air.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry, Safe in the inner fold; And maybe they hear, and wonder why, And marvel, out in the cold.
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.
I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.
Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple--teach him; He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep--wake him; He who knows and knows he knows, hi is wise--follow him!
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.
Out of too much learning become mad.
For I light my candle from their torches.
All literature is political.
Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.
The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side. [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores, Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.]
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.
Go then merrily to Heaven.
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
And 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.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
