Burton, Sir Richard
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Burton, Sir Richard
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Burton, Sir Richard
Friends and Friendship
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Burton, Sir Richard
Plagiarism
Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
Burton, Sir Richard
Travel and Tourism
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Burton, Sir Richard
Riches
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Burton, Sir Richard
Affliction
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn t know how to play them when I was drunk.
Burton, Sir Richard
Alcohol and Alcoholism