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I would always ask for magic b... LANCE BURTON I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hell... LANCE BURTON What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of th... BURTON RASCOE I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than kn... ROBERT BURTON Build castles in the air. ROBERT BURTON For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world
knows. ROBERT BURTON No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. ROBERT BURTON See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea,
one river, and see all. ROBERT BURTON Penny wise, pound foolish. ROBERT BURTON I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quarte... GARY BURTON I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played... GARY BURTON I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren'... GARY BURTON I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no ot... GARY BURTON I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check someth... GARY BURTON It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new ... GARY BURTON I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something d... GARY BURTON I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from play... GARY BURTON I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we... GARY BURTON Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on thei... GARY BURTON There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet pla... GARY BURTON It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough... GARY BURTON But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynam... GARY BURTON Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvisi... GARY BURTON We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved.... DAN BURTON One religion is as true as another. ROBERT BURTON There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because th... BURTON CUMMINGS Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will plead t... ROBERT BURTON The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill. ROBERT BURTON I would help others out of a fellow-feeling. ROBERT BURTON False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives n... RICHARD BURTON Out of too much learning become mad. ROBERT BURTON Believe Robert who has tried it.
[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.] ROBERT BURTON Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends. ROBERT BURTON One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. ROBERT BURTON No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. ROBERT BURTON 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