Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
ROBERT BURNSBeauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
ROBERT BURNSAn honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
ROBERT BURNSShe is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
ROBERT BURNSWhen Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
ROBERT BURNSBut facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
ROBERT BURNSLearn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNSMankind is a science that defies definitions.
ROBERT BURNSGo fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
ROBERT BURNSHow wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
ROBERT BURNSNow’s the day and now’s the hour.
ROBERT BURNSOh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
ROBERT BURNSTo make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
ROBERT BURNSIt ‘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.
ROBERT BURNSLife is but a day at most.
ROBERT BURNSFirmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
ROBERT BURNSA women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
ROBERT BURNS