Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNSAnd like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
More Robert Burns Quotes
-
-
Nae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNS -
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
ROBERT BURNS -
Life is but a day at most.
ROBERT BURNS -
God 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 BURNS -
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
ROBERT BURNS -
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
ROBERT BURNS -
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
ROBERT BURNS -
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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 -
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNS -
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
ROBERT BURNS -
Anticipation forward points the view.
ROBERT BURNS -
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
ROBERT BURNS -
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
ROBERT BURNS -
And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
ROBERT BURNS