Sir Richard Burton

(322 votes)   As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Sir Richard Burton
1821-1890, Explorer, Born in Torquay

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

Richard Burton
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(48 votes)   An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

Richard Burton
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(44 votes)   Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

Richard Francis Burton
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(29 votes)   How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Richard Burton
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(27 votes)   Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

Richard Burton
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(27 votes)   When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Richard Burton
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(26 votes)   I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

Richard Burton
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(21 votes)   You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

Richard Burton
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(19 votes)   Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Richard Burton
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(18 votes)   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.

Richard Burton
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(18 votes)   I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

Richard Francis Burton
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(18 votes)   This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Richard Burton
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(16 votes)   The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Richard Burton
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(16 votes)   The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

Richard Burton
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