“Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
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“It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 14.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 1, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 2, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 3, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 1, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Going as if he trod upon eggs.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Birds of a feather will gather together.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 1, member 1, subsection 2, Love's Beginning, Object, Definition, Division.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 15, Love of Learning, or overmuch study. With a Digression of the misery of Scholars, and why the Muses are Melancholy.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 2, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Though it rain daggers with their points downward.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 4, subsection 7, A heap of other Accidents causing Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 2, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II