Robert Burton
Robert Burton (1577-1640) was an English clergyman, born in Leicestershire. He was scholar of Christ Church, Oxford and lived chiefly in Oxford, spending his time in it for some 50 years in study. He was the author of "The Anatomy of Melancholy," which he wrote to alleviate his own depression of mind, a book which is a perfect mosaic of quotations on every conceivable topic, familiar and unfamiliar, from every manner of source.Wisdom & Quotes
- Be not solitary, be not idle.
- England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses; Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb (proverb) goes
- One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
- All poets are mad.
- One religion is as true as another.
- What is a ship but a prison?
- Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent, tobacco… 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.
- All places are distant from heaven alike.
- A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
William Harvey