The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
ROBERT BURNSGod help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Life is but a day at most.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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