Robert Burton Quotes

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

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.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.

What can't be cured must be endured.

I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.

Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun