Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNSPrudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNSTo step aside is human.
ROBERT BURNSPleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
ROBERT BURNSI have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
ROBERT BURNSMankind is a science that defies definitions.
ROBERT BURNSThe heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
ROBERT BURNSTo see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
ROBERT BURNSHere’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
ROBERT BURNSI’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
ROBERT BURNSCritics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNSInspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
ROBERT BURNSHope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNSThe trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
ROBERT BURNSYour 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 BURNSI pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
ROBERT BURNSBeauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
ROBERT BURNS