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How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles


Richard Burton

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ROBERT BURTON There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share o...
PAUL BURTON He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON [Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up li...
ROBERT BURTON England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for wom...
ROBERT BURTON Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is look...
TIM BURTON Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
ROBERT BURTON He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
ROBERT BURTON The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
ROBERT BURTON Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
ROBERT BURTON Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which mo...
ROBERT BURTON For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON All places are distant from heaven alike.
ROBERT BURTON As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet ...
ROBERT BURTON There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
NAT BURTON I’m doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll be comple...
JESSIE BURTON We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. W...
LEVAR BURTON How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is ...
DAN BURTON