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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

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

Richard Burton

Gold

Man

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.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Richard Burton

Order

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

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

Richard Burton

Actors

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Richard Burton

Work

Books

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

Richard Burton

Poets

Race

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Richard Burton

Play

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Richard Burton

Man

Study

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.