Robert A. Burton Quotes

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.

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

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

Out of too much learning become mad.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

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.

He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

Compassion, empathy, and humility can only arise out of recognizing that our common desires are differently expressed.