Burton Won

Famous quotes containing the words burton and/or won:

“Idleness is an appendix to nobility.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)

“If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.”
—Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938)