Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives ne...
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest d...
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subje...
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; ...
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON The thoroughbred wanderer
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
SIR RICHARD BURTON As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
SIR RICHARD BURTON Do what thy manhood bids thee do from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest d...
SIR RICHARD BURTON Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved t...
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a ...
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;He noblest lives and noblest di...
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without merc...
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
SIR RICHARD F BURTON False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives n...
RICHARD BURTON A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
RICHARD BURTON An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
RICHARD BURTON False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives ne...
RICHARD BURTON Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.
RICHARD BURTON I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.
RICHARD BURTON When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was dru...
RICHARD BURTON 'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.
RICHARD BURTON If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
RICHARD BURTON This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip
RICHARD BURTON She is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with but a few flaws in the masterpi...
RICHARD BURTON How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events o...
RICHARD BURTON My next film, 'The Prince Of Players,' was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - whe...
RICHARD BURTON The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional
RICHARD BURTON Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know
RICHARD BURTON Well, I don't want to kill myself.
RICHARD BURTON You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
RICHARD BURTON There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds; Tools of the wily Fetishee...
RICHARD BURTON The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
RICHARD BURTON I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious tha...
RICHARD BURTON False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives ne...
RICHARD BURTON They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
RICHARD BURTON I'll talk to him tonight.
RICHARD BURTON Some people may want to look at a new car, but then not want to invest that much. And then they swit...
RICHARD BURTON I think they could have used a second trolley though.
RICHARD BURTON The County salutes the tremendous contributions of groups such as the American Red Cross and also th...
RICHARD BURTON I rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a wo...
RICHARD BURTON How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events o...
RICHARD BURTON If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine.
RICHARD BURTON Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a ...
RICHARD BURTON At 34 she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the master...
RICHARD BURTON I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
RICHARD BURTON The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
RICHARD BURTON I don't have tremendous physical vitality since I had a neck operation, and I'm more aware t...
RICHARD BURTON Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.
RICHARD BURTON Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subje...
RICHARD BURTON I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guard...
RICHARD BURTON The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irre...
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I w...
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE His creed no parson ever knew, for this was still his simple plan, to have with clergymen to do as l...
SIR FRANCIS DOYLE Knowledge is power.
SIR FRANCIS BACON In charity there is no excess.
SIR FRANCIS BACON There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
SIR FRANCIS BACON In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first oc...
SIR FRANCIS DARWIN Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill t...
SIR FRANCIS BACON God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave...
SIR FRANCIS BACON A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
SIR FRANCIS BACON There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...
SIR FRANCIS BACON There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom
SIR FRANCIS BACON A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ab...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
SIR FRANCIS BACON A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
SIR FRANCIS BACON He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
SIR FRANCIS BACON The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
(To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
SIR FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
SIR FRANCIS BACON The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing.
SIR FRANCIS NETHERSOLE Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
SIR FRANCIS BACON In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.
SIR FRANCIS BACON In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
SIR FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
SIR FRANCIS BACON I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
SIR FRANCIS BACON He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
SIR FRANCIS BACON By far the best proof is experience.
SIR FRANCIS BACON A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)
SIR FRANCIS BACON Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, exce...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...
SIR FRANCIS BACON There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
SIR FRANCIS BACON They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
SIR FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Silence is the virtue of fools.
SIR FRANCIS BACON From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild: They follow the beck ...
RICHARD EUGENE BURTON We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers; Body and brain we we...
RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry, Safe in the inner fold; And maybe they hear, and...
RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing.
RICHARD EUGENE BURTON How often in the summer-tide, His graver business set aside, His stripling Will, the thoughtfu...
RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
SIR RICHARD STEELE The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may...
SIR RICHARD STEELE A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
SIR RICHARD STEELE That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
SIR RICHARD STEELE Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav...
SIR RICHARD STEELE The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven...
SIR RICHARD STEELE A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
SIR RICHARD STEELE To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
SIR RICHARD STEELE Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
SIR RICHARD STEELE I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an except...
SIR RICHARD STEELE Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.
SIR RICHARD HULL Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
SIR RICHARD STEELE It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
SIR RICHARD STEELE The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
SIR RICHARD STEELE The first rule of venture capitalism should be Shoot the Inventor.
SIR RICHARD STOREY Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
SIR RICHARD STEELE Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
SIR RICHARD STEELE I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
SIR RICHARD STEELE The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
SIR RICHARD STEELE Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the ...
SIR RICHARD STEELE To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
SIR RICHARD STEELE We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something ...
SIR RICHARD STEELE The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the conti...
SIR RICHARD STEELE Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation ...
SIR RICHARD STEELE Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
SIR RICHARD STEELE It is a distinct possibility and it is not just to the States.
SIR RICHARD BRANSON Virgin Digital UK is an exciting and innovative download service created and designed with the music...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON I think Chris is an astute businessman, but he is not used to running airlines. Virgin Blue needs pe...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON He gave me a lot of very useful advice when I set up Virgin Atlantic 21 years ago. Perhaps his best ...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON If you want milk, don’t sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that the cow will come...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON We expect the first Virgin Galactic space flight to take place in 2008, which gives our Flying Club ...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON Can you afford to ignore China? It's like saying you can afford to ignore the internet. I don't thin...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON Two people can play at that game. Cheers!
SIR RICHARD BRANSON A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity ...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON I talked to her about it. She said that it was the best thing that could have happened to her. When ...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON Anyone would feel an enormous sense of guilt going to one of these places - and if you're in a posit...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON But I think we will be able to appoint more directors, and the chairman.
SIR RICHARD BRANSON We are used to transporting millions of people ... transporting them safely. And we want to keep tha...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all exper...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON He was a larger-than-life figure, with a wicked sense of humor, and a great friend.
SIR RICHARD BRANSON He gave me a lot of very useful advice when I set up Virgin Atlantic 21 years ago. Perhaps his best ...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON Next year's concerts around the UK and Ireland will be the first arena tour I've done for years and ...
SIR CLIFF RICHARD If I'm in the middle of hitting a most fantastic cross court back hand top spin and someone says 'Ca...
SIR CLIFF RICHARD If the government go for the lowest-common-denominator approach, I don't think we will want to be in...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON He's just flown further than man, or woman, has ever flown. He has had pretty much no sleep since he...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.
SIR JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate, Who dies as firm as Sparta's king, ...
SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE Temperance is a bridle of gold.
BURTON When you say something to the mother, she wants to fist-fight you, ... I just wish something could b...
BURTON [Betsy Burton, an analyst at Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. and a longtime critic of the UPU pri...
BURTON Science is particularly needed to bring the attention of government policy-makers to problems that t...
BURTON You're very affected by your early life, ... I think if you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, ...
BURTON The most recent testimony seems to be an admission that Microsoft set up the browser to knock off Ne...
BURTON We're going to make a big din before it's over,
BURTON When they returned the punt, ... the momentum totally swung in their favor.
BURTON However, except for two-thirds of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, the numbers are predicated on very,...
BURTON The airport development plan is going to determine the actual scope of the project and the cost, ......
BURTON In every area of inquiry that we're involved in, suffice it to say there are an awful lot of interes...
BURTON The guys who are seniors this year were sophomores when we came within a game of the playoffs [in 20...
BURTON Espionage debriefings are exhaustive and meticulous,
BURTON Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extingui...
BURTON There are refineries that are not ready to take the product at the end of the pipe. So it's not just...
BURTON Carl said, 'Please, can you come and set up your tents here?' So here we are. We're going to stay as...
BURTON Is it a down year in the Big Ten region? No, ... But I think it's somewhat down in the particular ar...
BURTON It's nice to come out on the winning side of one of those,
BURTON Teachers have described him as friendly, well-liked,
BURTON When we hit on all cylinders like we did today on offense, defense and special teams, I know that we...
BURTON The success rate is still in the 70 percent range,
BURTON Anytime anybody works and accumulates something, I don't think that it's right for somebody to just ...
BURTON (Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarshi...
BURTON He's another bigger running back-type that Iowa seems to like,
BURTON If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
 FRANCIS “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
 FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
 FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
 FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
 FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
 FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
 FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
 FRANCIS Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life...
TIM BURTON It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
TIM BURTON I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meanin...
TIM BURTON Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.
CLIFF BURTON I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish chara...
KATE BURTON I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
KATE BURTON I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
KATE BURTON