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.
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.
ROBERT BURNSMy heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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.
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 BURNSO Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
ROBERT BURNSWhat is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
ROBERT BURNSOh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
ROBERT BURNSHow wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
ROBERT BURNSThe best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
ROBERT BURNSThe snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
ROBERT BURNSThere is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNSGod knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
ROBERT BURNSMan’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNSMankind is a science that defies definitions.
ROBERT BURNSNature’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!
ROBERT BURNSSuspense is worst than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNS