If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.


Tim Burton

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The fear of death is worse than death.
ROBERT BURTON
They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
ROBERT BURTON
The devil is the author of confusion.
ROBERT BURTON
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
ROBERT BURTON
A mere scholar, a mere ass.
ROBERT BURTON
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
ROBERT BURTON
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold,...
ROBERT BURTON
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
ROBERT BURTON
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which ...
ROBERT BURTON
What can't be cured must be endured.
ROBERT BURTON
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of...
PAUL BURTON
A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
PIERRE BURTON
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as...
ROBERT BURTON
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel...
HENRY BURTON
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,...
ROBERT BURTON
All literature is political.
LEVAR BURTON
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
ROBERT BURTON
'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by h...
ROBERT BURTON
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our hel...
ROBERT BURTON
Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
ROBERT BURTON
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
ROBERT BURTON
[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their...
ROBERT BURTON
Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
ROBERT BURTON
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
ROBERT BURTON
Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
ROBERT BURTON
Birds of a feather will gather together.
ROBERT BURTON
Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outrid...
ROBERT BURTON
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door an...
ROBERT BURTON
Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
ROBERT BURTON
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
ROBERT BURTON
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share o...
PAUL BURTON
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON
[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up li...
ROBERT BURTON
England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for wom...
ROBERT BURTON
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
ROBERT BURTON
He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
ROBERT BURTON
The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
ROBERT BURTON
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
ROBERT BURTON
Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON