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A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.


Sir Richard Francis Burton

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A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
RICHARD BURTON A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
UNKNOWN A miser is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles all its life.
VIKRANT PARSAI Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Bu...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir
APHRA BEHN An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
ROMANIAN PROVERB I'm getting my singing voice back, cutting back on the cigarettes a fraction, and I've been rehearsi...
JEREMY IRONS They're the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of our era.
NIKKI SIXX An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insu...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
PROVERB Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
LATIN PROVERB It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches ha...
DR. CAIRD He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of lo...
DOROTHY ALLISON Women rule the world. It’s not really worth fighting because they know what they’re doing. Ask N...
JON BON JOVI I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
MARIAN ANDERSON Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
UNKNOWN HISTORY STUDENT In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsib...
NORMAN COUSINS In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsib...
NORMAN COUSINS It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of natio...
SAMUEL SMILES The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
PLUTARCH A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.
G.K. CHESTERTON Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches...
BIBLE Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. A...
JON BON JOVI (Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? (Maria:) A dr...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, ...
GALE GORDON Sir James waved a gnarled hand. "They're nothing but feral file clerks, dragons. They used to alphab...
RACHEL HARTMAN But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death...
FRANCIS BACON Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard a...
RICHARD BRANSON The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
CHARLIE ROSE At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more g...
JEREMY TAYLOR I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically ...
NINA BAWDEN He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath mor...
JEREMY TAYLOR Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
GIOVANNI RUFFINI Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains
GIOVANNI RUFFINI There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ...
GREG BEHRENDT Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other m...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.
JOHN GAY Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold...
BIBLE 'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig
JOHN RAY I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The f...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The f...
SENECA I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean...
LISA GLATT Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
EDWARD DAHLBERG Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...
SAMUEL BUTLER An unmarried man, in my opinion, enjoys only half a life.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car wit...
ANTHONY HOPKINS The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be...
EUGENE KENNEDY 'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed...
H. RIDER HAGGARD Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to und...
JOHN CULLUM The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL They bring an energy and a freshness to the process that everybody enjoys.
DOM STARSIA The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge not qu...
OLD SONG His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle...
T.A. MILES Hey... you gonna ignore me like that?
...

Forever?
...

You gonna rej...
DEYTH BANGER Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
OWEN WILSON To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good i...
H. L. WAYLAND Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold
ALAIN DE LILLE Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a somet...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is c...
HORACE GREELEY A bird which eats berries can be caught, but not a bird that eats wood
MAORI PROVERB He who lives with an ass, makes noises like an ass
AFRICAN PROVERB The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor
DUTCH PROVERB Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Because all the troubles they had up here and that is not right. That is with other businesses and n...
CAPPY LEDGER I'm a man who enjoys people, enjoys a good time.
ALAN J. DIXON Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and tha...
OGDEN NASH An average driver with an exceptional crew that eats, sleeps, drinks, and lives racing.
FRANK RUOCCO Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that the...
DEYTH BANGER To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good i...
H. L. WAYLAND A hare is like an ass in the length of its ears, yet it is not its son
PROVERB No man is a failure who enjoys life
WILLIAM FEATHER Man is what he eats.
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Man is what he eats
LUDWIG FEUERBACH O, sir,' murmured Sheila, still on her knees, 'please forgive me.'

'Forgive you! 0, la, l...
A.E. COPPARD The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the atte...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I've got so many: Peter ...
ANEURIN BARNARD I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Bur...
FRANCESCA ANNIS The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health the...
E. F. BENSON

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BURTON There are refineries that are not ready to take the product at the end of the pipe. So it's not just...
BURTON Carl said, 'Please, can you come and set up your tents here?' So here we are. We're going to stay as...
BURTON Is it a down year in the Big Ten region? No, ... But I think it's somewhat down in the particular ar...
BURTON It's nice to come out on the winning side of one of those,
BURTON Teachers have described him as friendly, well-liked,
BURTON When we hit on all cylinders like we did today on offense, defense and special teams, I know that we...
BURTON The success rate is still in the 70 percent range,
BURTON Anytime anybody works and accumulates something, I don't think that it's right for somebody to just ...
BURTON (Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarshi...
BURTON He's another bigger running back-type that Iowa seems to like,
BURTON If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
 FRANCIS “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
 FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
 FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
 FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
 FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
 FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
 FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
 FRANCIS Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life...
TIM BURTON It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
TIM BURTON I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meanin...
TIM BURTON Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.
CLIFF BURTON I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish chara...
KATE BURTON I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
KATE BURTON I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
KATE BURTON