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• 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 (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• Going as if he trod upon eggs. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect.
  2, Memb. 3...
• England is a paradise for women and hell for horse
  Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes....
• All poets are mad. -- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
• As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect....
• Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect. 1, Memb. 3...
• Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 2...
• As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 2...
• One man has never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
  Robert Burton (1577-1640)...