ROBERT BURTON QUOTES II

English scholar & author (1577-1640)


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All our geese are swans.

ROBERT BURTON
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The Anatomy of Melancholy


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Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.

ROBERT BURTON

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

ROBERT BURTON

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

ROBERT BURTON

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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