Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

A quiet mind cureth all.
Topic: Silence
Author: Robert Burton
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
Topic: Shame
Author: Robert Burton
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
Topic: Shoemaking
Author: Robert Burton
All our geese are swans.
Topic: Swans
Author: Robert Burton
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.
Topic: Temptation
Author: Robert Burton
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
Topic: Water
Author: Robert Burton
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Topic: Weapons
Author: Robert Burton
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
Topic: Will
Author: Robert Burton
Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Topic: Wit
Author: Robert Burton
Wonders I sing; the sun has set; no night has followed.
Topic: Wonders
Author: Robert Burton
Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.
Topic: Worship
Author: Robert Burton
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