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


All our geese are swans.

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


Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

ROBERT BURTON

The Anatomy of Melancholy