As That Great Captain, Ziska, Would Have A Drum Made Of His Skin When He Was Dead, Because He Thought The Very Noise Of It Would Put His Enemies To Flight.

Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
Women wear the breeches.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vice
he had two distinct persons in him....
It is most true, stylus virum arguit,--our style bewrays us.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
Penny wise, pound foolish.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...