O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
ROBERT BURNSOr like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
More Robert Burns Quotes
-
-
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
ROBERT BURNS -
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.
ROBERT BURNS -
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
ROBERT BURNS -
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
ROBERT BURNS -
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
ROBERT BURNS -
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.
ROBERT BURNS -
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNS -
A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
ROBERT BURNS -
Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
ROBERT BURNS -
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
ROBERT BURNS -
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNS -
Anticipation forward points the view.
ROBERT BURNS -
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
ROBERT BURNS -
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNS -
Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
ROBERT BURNS