Robert Burton (Scholar) Birds without feathers are slaughtered Birds of a feather will gather together.
Robert Burton (Scholar) If you can't beat 'em, join 'em To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton (Scholar) Sisyphus Simplified Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton (Scholar) Efficiency is the Key! The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Robert Burton (Scholar) Distractions and Shiny Objects Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton (Scholar) Sticks and Stones A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton (Scholar) When first we practise to deceive! No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
Robert Burton (Scholar) Every little bit helps A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
