Richard Burton

Conquer thyself. Till thou hast done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.


Cooking: An art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.


Die meisten Konferenzen sind Verschiebebahnhöfe für ungelöste Probleme.


Die wirklichen Reichen erkennt man daran, daß sie nach dem Preis fragen.


Fame you get accustomed to, but if it ever takes possession of you, then quite clearly you're in dead trouble.


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.


I no sooner come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, avarice and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance and melancholy herself and in the very lap of eternity; amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content that I pity all our great ones and rich men that know not this happiness.


Ich müßte lange nachdenken, ehe mir ein interessanter Mann einfiele, der nicht trinkt.


Ich staune über das Vermögen des deutschen Volkes, sich Reden anzuhören.


Let the world have whatever sports and recreations please them best, provided they be followed with discretion.


Misery assails riches, as lightning does the highest towers; or as a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own boughs, so riches destroy the virtue of their possessor.


One of the mistakes in the conduct of human life is to suppose that other men's opinion are to make us happy.


Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race.


Wenn man liebt, sucht man die Schuld bei sich selbst.


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