Frases de Robert Burton (acadêmico)

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“Os ricos são antes possuídos pelo seu dinheiro do que possuidores dele.”

“O que é lei hoje, não o é amanhã.”

“Uma religião é tão verdadeira quanto a outra.”

“Nossas escritas são tão frustradas, nossos leitores parasitas, nossos livros parecem belos; aquilo que um admira o outro rejeita; assim somos aprovados como a ilusão dos homens são influenciadas.”

“Como cães numa roda, ou pássaros numa gaiola, os homens ambiciosos continuam a subir, com grande trabalho e incessante ansiedade, mas nunca chegam ao cume.”

“Velhos amigos tornam-se inimigos amargos subitamente por bobagens e pequenas ofensas.”

“As s crucificam a alma do homem, atenuam nossos corpos, enxuga-os, degenera-os murcha-os como velhas maçãs, torna-os similares a tantas anatomias.”

“Aquele que luta contra nós fortalece nossos nervos, e aprimora nossas habilidades. Nosso inimigo é nosso auxiliador.”

“Todos os poetas são loucos.”

“Um anão sobre os ombros de um gigante pode ver mais longe que o próprio gigante.”

“Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.”

“The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.”

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

“The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.”

“Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness.”

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

“Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."”

“Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.”

“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, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.”

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

“I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.”

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

“A good conscience is a continual feast.”

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

“As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.”

“Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.”

“[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.”

“Women wear the breeches.”

“All poets are mad.”

“Rob Peter, and pay Paul.”