It is an old saying, “A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword”; and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrile and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-plays, or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.

— Robert Burton

Robert Burton Quotes

They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.

— Robert A. Burton

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

— Robert A. Burton

Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.

— Robert A. Burton

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

— Robert A. Burton

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

— Robert A. Burton

It is an old saying, “A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword”; and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrile and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-plays, or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.

— Robert Burton

One religion is as true as another.

— Robert Burton

As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.

— Robert Burton

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

— Robert Burton

I would advise him that is actually melancholy not to read this tract of Symptoms, lest he disquiet or make himself for a time worse, and more melancholy than he was before.

— Robert Burton

A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;’ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.

— Robert Burton

There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.

— Robert Burton

We are thus bad by nature, bad by kind, but far worse by art, every man the greatest enemy unto himself.

— Robert Burton

Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.

— Robert Burton

As a Dutch host, if you come to an inn in Germnay and dislike your fare, diet, lodging, etc., replies in a surly tone, Aliud tibi quaeras diversorium, If you like not this, get you to another inn: I resolve, if you like not my writing, go read something else.

— Robert Burton

The brain, having never taken a course in philosophy, is the ultimate pragmatist; what is true is what works. Like any successful oddsmaker, the brain is a predictor of probabilities, not a stickler for the perfect answer.

— Robert A. Burton

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

— Robert Burton

Riches do not so much exhilarate us with their possession, as they torment us with their loss.

— Robert Burton

Look into our histories, and you shall almost meet with no other subject but what a company of hare-brains have done in their rage.

— Robert Burton

Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.

— Robert Burton
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