Quotes by Robert Burton

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

No happiness is like unto it, no love so great as that of man and wife, no such comfort as a sweet wife.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

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.

Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons.

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, - some of them in hell.

I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

From this it is clear how much the pen is worse than the sword (Hinc quam sit calamus sævior ense patet.)