Quotes
Quotes - Burton
Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?
Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
Call a spade a spade.
See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. [Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus saevior euse, patet.]
They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.
We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?.
One religion is as true as another.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
A quiet mind cureth all.
We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers; Body and brain we were sound as they, But the prizes were not ours.
All our geese are swans.
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.
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
