The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNSThe wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNSWhen matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
ROBERT BURNSTo see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
ROBERT BURNSAnd like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
ROBERT BURNSI 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.
ROBERT BURNSMankind is a science that defies definitions.
ROBERT BURNSLearn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNSWhen chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
ROBERT BURNSA eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
ROBERT BURNSLife is but a day at most.
ROBERT BURNSPleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
ROBERT BURNSMy Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
ROBERT BURNSA women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
ROBERT BURNSDare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNSAgain rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
ROBERT BURNSTo step aside is human.
ROBERT BURNS