Robert Burton
10 quotations
The devil is the author of confusion.
They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
What can't be cured must be endured.
England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.
A mere scholar, a mere ass.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
The fear of death is worse than death.