Richard Burton famous quotes

04-17-2025

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
-- Richard Burton

#Rubbish #Being The Best
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ***** that carries gold and eats thistles.
-- Richard Burton

#Men #Gold #Riches
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
-- Richard Burton

#Death #Religious #Fear
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

#Friendship #Fake People #Wall
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

#Dream #Memories #Men
I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
-- Richard Burton

#Morning #Fog #Order
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
-- Richard Burton

#Islands #Sea #Wings
This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
-- Richard Burton

#Jewelry #Diamond #Turnips
One of the gladdest moments of 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 home, man feels once more happy.
-- Richard Burton

#Travel #Home #Journey
I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.
-- Richard Burton

#Drinking #Beer #Men
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
-- Richard Burton

#Funny #Humorous #Drinking

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