The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
ROBERT BURNSHope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Life is but a day at most.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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