Christ himself was poor.... And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor. (Robert Burton)
Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges. (Robert Burton)
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn. (Robert Burton)
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. (Robert Burton)
Agencies should encourage their acquisition professionals to limit the use of brand-name specifications and maximize competition. (Robert Burton)
Our wrangling lawyers ... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell. (Robert Burton)
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself. (Robert Burton)
Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices he had two distinct persons in him. (Robert Burton)
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel. (Robert Burton)
Like sop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs. (Robert Burton)
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end. (Robert Burton)
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. (Robert Burton)
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. (Robert Burton)
Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun. (Robert Burton)