ROBERT BURTON QUOTES II

English scholar & author (1577-1640)

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

ROBERT BURTON

The Anatomy of Melancholy


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

ROBERT BURTON

The Anatomy of Melancholy


All our geese are swans.

ROBERT BURTON

The Anatomy of Melancholy


Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

ROBERT BURTON

The Anatomy of Melancholy