Famous quotes containing the words burton and/or mix:
“One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)
“In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, curses mix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)