Robert Burton

To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.

[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels."

He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore, because he taught him no better.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.

And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.

And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.

Birds of a feather will gather together.

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

"Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, …

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.

The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."

All places are distant from heaven alike.

Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not.

Many things happen between the cup and the lip.

Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.

Christ himself was poor... And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor.

Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.

As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?"