Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
ROBERT BURNSYe 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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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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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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God 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.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Life is but a day at most.
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