The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
ROBERT BURNSBut to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
More Robert Burns Quotes
-
-
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
ROBERT BURNS -
My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
ROBERT BURNS -
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
ROBERT BURNS -
Life is but a day at most.
ROBERT BURNS -
Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
ROBERT BURNS -
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
ROBERT BURNS -
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
ROBERT BURNS -
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
ROBERT BURNS -
My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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 -
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNS -
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
ROBERT BURNS -
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
ROBERT BURNS -
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNS -
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNS