Quotes by Burton, Robert

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do >>

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond a >>

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

Quotations about Idleness

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provisi >>

Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant m >>

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key >>

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Burton, Robert