Top 36 Richard Francis Burton Quotes (EXPLORER)

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“Travelers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.”
Richard Francis Burton

Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

“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

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself. — The more I **study** religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

His praise is reserved for. Lives lived in obedience to the inner law which cannot alter.

The original calamity was either caused by God or arose without leave of God, in either case degrading God to man. — The “original calamity” was either caused by God or arose without leave of God, in either case degrading God to man.

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own. — All faith is false, all faith is true. **Truth** is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each **believes** his little bit the whole to own.

6 Thought-Provoking Richard Francis Burton Quotes

“Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.”
Richard Francis Burton

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. — The dearest **ambition** of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

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

“How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories “Are shadows, not substantial things.” Truly said the sayer, “disappointment is the salt of life” a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.”
Richard Francis Burton

For each believes his glimm’ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.

Man remembers and combines but does not create.

3 Richard Francis Burton Quotes About Books

“I’d like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate. And I’d like to have the most enormous library, and I’d like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored – and packed with information.”
Richard Francis Burton

“Scheherazade had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of bygone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.”
Richard Francis Burton

3 Richard Francis Burton Quotes About Men and Women

“If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh well than try to turn me on with long, silent, soulful, secret looks. If you can laugh with a woman, everything else falls into place.”
Richard Burton

The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not as real and urgent of those of the man.

The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle.

2 Richard Francis Burton Quotes About Religions

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

It is not easy to talk religion to men who measure excellence by forbidden meats. — It is not easy to talk religion to men who measure **excellence** by forbidden meats.

2 Richard Francis Burton Quotes About Death

“Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail;
Enjoy thy shining hour of sun;
We dance along Death’s icy brink,
But is the dance less full of fun?”
Richard Francis Burton

One death to a man is a serious thing a dozen neutralize one another. — One **death** to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

10 Richard Francis Burton Quotes That Will Make You Think

“One night when we were sleeping they threw my wife and myself into the sea. My wife, however, was a fairy, and so she did not let me drown, but transported me to an island.”
Richard Francis Burton