If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
Richard Burton
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ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish ins...
AMBROSE BIERCE Make good use of bad rubbish
ELIZABETH BERESFORD It is pathetic. It is rubbish and we shall dismiss it the best we can.
ALEX FERGUSON It is absolute rubbish,
BARBARA CHARONE They are rubbish wickets really.
SCOTT STYRIS Rubbish is immortal, it pervades the air, swells up in water, dissolves, rots, disintegrates, change...
IVAN KLíMA It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it."<...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the hu...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Good riddance to bad rubbish.
RODMAN PHILBRICK Operation Drive Out the Rubbish.
ROBERT MUGABE Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON This statement can be described only as utter rubbish.
SIZWE KUPELO We were rubbish for 44 minutes. The best thing that could happen to us was that we were booed off. I...
CHRIS COLEMAN I am a rubbish flirt.
DAWN FRENCH It was a tremendous turnaround because we were rubbish in first half.
ALAN SHEARER The interviewers asking an interviewee as how much business he can generate for their organisation h...
ANUJ SOMANY If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
WILLIAM A. ORTON Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.
STEVE WINWOOD Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the ...
AUBERON WAUGH Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.
GEORGE ELIOT We are getting the rubbish seats but come Thursday the other tickets will go on sale to the general ...
DAVID MORGAN I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.
ALLAN CARR I use paper, plastics, textiles and rubbish,
CHRISTIAN KOCH If you win a bid for rubbish disposal, you are destined to be a long-time partner. It shows the impo...
XU LIANG There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.
RONALD BIGGS The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
MYRTLE BARKER If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every p...
ALEX SCARROW They're the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of our era.
NIKKI SIXX Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different...
CARLOS GHOSN I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat.
SOPHIE MCSHERA I thought, if I do a movie, I may be rubbish at it. I know I'm good at music, though. And that's wha...
SHARLEEN SPITERI This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.
DARCEY BUSSELL I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It r...
SARAH BRIGHTMAN There used to be a rubbish heap under the great tree in Dhoby Ghaut with a sarabat stall parked next...
GREGORY NALPON When stupidity reaches its highest level, we act rubbish knowingly
DURGESH SATPATHY Fact "I tolerate any rubbish but don't over do it coz u might find yourself in the trash can....."
IRENE GOODWILL The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved aw...
JANE AUSTEN This was the Prime Minister's prerogative. It's rubbish to say there's been a tussle.
ARJUN SINGH Worn old shoes need a good cobbler to be repaired; but worn old thoughts, only a rubbish bin!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
AMBROSE BIERCE Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
A. N. WILSON You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind....
FRANK MCCOURT He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everyth...
FRANK MCCOURT He's engaged in a business of charging people for the movement of rubbish. To the best of our knowle...
DANA REED An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyt...
ERIC HOFFER When coming in to land at Santiago, Chile, I saw the area between the city and the Andes mountains w...
MICHAEL FOREMAN This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
MAISIE WILLIAMS It is pathetic. We have had this with George Best, we had it with Paul Gascoigne and we had it with ...
SIR ALEX FERGUSON The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
CHARLIE ROSE When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.
GEORGE F. WILL Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can neve...
MYRTLE REED You may have been born on the rubbish damp. But be careful not to believe that the rubbish damp was ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I find myself sympathizing with the Americans. Why should they buy this rubbish? Even we aren't buyi...
GEORGE MICHAEL There's a lot of evidence to (peer review's) downside. Even the very best journals have published ru...
RICHARD SMITH It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of con...
JANE AUSTEN Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Bu...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Why is everything I own rubbish?’ said Ron furiously, striding across the room to unstick Pigwidge...
J.K. ROWLING IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to bu...
DEYTH BANGER I love make-up so much, but I'm a bit rubbish at skincare; I'm really disloyal and never sti...
POPPY DELEVINGNE I was absolutely horrified when I became aware of this agenda of the homosexual lobby to promote thi...
PATRICK O'NEILL He has no place in the New York Fire Department. I lost too many friends that day to listen to that ...
JACK DUGGAN An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
ROBERT SOUTH I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' Th...
SCOTT WESTERFELD I'd cut an arm off to win that gold medal. The pole vault would be difficult but that's a rubbish ev...
DEAN MACEY A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish...
WILLIAM JAY SMITH I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, ...
GALE GORDON Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
PAT CASH Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a y...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The independent group of experts are not pushovers in this process. No-one should rubbish their view...
GORDON JACKSON I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst sayi...
ALAN HANSEN This bullying rubbish is absolute garbage, everyone who knows me and works with me said take no noti...
BILL SWEETENHAM A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.
AGYNESS DEYN My function as a writer and a speaker really is as a rubbish clearer. I try to sweep away a little b...
ADRIAN PLASS I cut things off because I no longer want to be like a wall, or a rubbish bin where you dump anythin...
GERARD DEPARDIEU An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER I was once timed at 99.97mph, but that's rubbish, I was miles faster than that [attributed]
JEFF THOMSON the ideologues of his council to arrange what he calls their revolutionary rubbish, such as sovereig...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE You cannot be a professional or a champion in football and only be ready to face the beautiful momen...
CARLOS QUEIROZ I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I...
GLEN DUNCAN People often say that a very attractive woman is 'out of their league' Let me be clear about this......
NICK KINSELLA American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecke...
JOHN STEINBECK He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is...
MARK TWAIN My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the criti...
HAROLD PINTER The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that...
THOMAS MERTON It was just about 15 years ago when a scientist at the National Institute on Aging concluded that it...
WALTER WILLETT Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of...
ANNIE LENNOX All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for ...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as ru...
BRYAN ROBSON No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. ...
MARK HADDON The disciple of the truly enlightened Buddha shines forth by his knowledge among those who are like ...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER It's a dreadful film. It's a rogue copy that was supposed to have gone away and we don't want it to ...
ANDY STEPHENS I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically ...
NINA BAWDEN What is a Shadowhunter made of, if they desert their own, if they throw away a child’s heart like ...
CASSANDRA CLARE They choose to establish joint ventures with us because it helps them to obtain market shares in adv...
XU LIANG I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium ...
LAURA TROTT An old Polish frog... with a huge casket of jewels... and she clicks her teeth and shrugs, "Only Rub...
CECIL BEATON I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and...
KURT SCHWITTERS The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.
It's RU...
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[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
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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