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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.Pin
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.Pin
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.Pin
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.Pin
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.Pin
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.Pin
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.Pin
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.Pin
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.Pin
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.Pin
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.Pin
For each believes his glimm’ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.
Man remembers and combines but does not create.Pin
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
Home is where the books are.Pin
Home is where the books are.

“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.Pin
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.Pin
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.Pin
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.Pin
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.Pin
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
Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.Pin
Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; Yet ne’er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.Pin
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.Pin
The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.
Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Labyrinth's single clue.Pin
Reason is Life’s sole arbiter, the magic Labyrinth’s single clue.
When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throngPin
When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?
Ah! gay the day with shine of sun, and bright the breeze, and blithe the throng Met on the River-bank to play, when I was young, when I was young.Pin
Ah! gay the day with shine of sun, and bright the breeze, and blithe the throng Met on the River-bank to play, when I was young, when I was young.
Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.Pin
Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.
Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.Pin
Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.
And still the Weaver plies his loom, whose warp and woof is wretched Man Weaving th' unpattern'd dark design, so dark we doubt it owns a plan.Pin
And still the Weaver plies his loom, whose warp and woof is wretched Man Weaving th’ unpattern’d dark design, so dark we doubt it owns a plan.
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