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Robert Burton
(8 Feb 1577 - 25 Jan 1640)
English clergyman and scholar.
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Science Quotes by Robert Burton (4)
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
— Robert Burton
Anatomy of Melancholy (16th Ed., 1838), 148.
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.
— Robert Burton
In Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), 243.
See also: | Employment (3) | Essential (5) | Galen (6) | Happiness (26) | Indolence (3) | Misery (4) | Mother (10) | Nature (243) | Physician (138)
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet.
— Robert Burton
In Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896), 110.
See also: | Body (24) | Destroy (7) | Diet (12) | Disease (115) | Fire (18) | Fountain (2) | Fuel (5) | Gluttony (5) | Health (61) | Lamp (3) | Natural (2) | Oil (6)
Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
— Robert Burton
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1857), 431.
