34+ Sir Thomas Browne Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Sir Thomas Browne quotes and sayings.

Top 10 Sir Thomas Browne Quotes

1. Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
2. Death is the cure for all diseases.
3. Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
4. Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
5. All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
6. As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
7. Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
8. It is we that are blind, not fortune.
9. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
10. Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Sir Thomas Browne Short Quotes

• There is no road or ready way to virtue.
• Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
• Life is pure flame.
• Festination may prove Precipitation;Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
• Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
• I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers.
• Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
• It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
• He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
• To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Sir Thomas Browne Famous Quotes And Sayings

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. — Sir Thomas Browne

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. — Sir Thomas Browne

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers. — Sir Thomas Browne

It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. — Sir Thomas Browne

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. — Sir Thomas Browne

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. — Sir Thomas Browne

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms. — Sir Thomas Browne

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven. — Sir Thomas Browne

Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose. — Sir Thomas Browne

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. — Sir Thomas Browne

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. — Sir Thomas Browne

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. — Sir Thomas Browne

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty. — Sir Thomas Browne

Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music where ever there is a harmony, order, or proportion: and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres. — Sir Thomas Browne