As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of…

Quote byRobert Burton · 1577–1640

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Part I, Section 2, member 2, subsection 2..

English (original)

As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.

— Robert Burton

The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.

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

All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy.

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

I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.