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 BURNSTo make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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