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 c…

- Richard Francis Burton

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

- Richard Francis Burton

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

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

- Richard Francis Burton

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.

- Richard Francis Burton

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

- Richard Francis Burton

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.

- Richard Francis Burton

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,…

- Richard Francis Burton

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.

- Richard Francis Burton