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 BURNSBut 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 BURNSA mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
ROBERT BURNSNae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNSMankind is a science that defies definitions.
ROBERT BURNSThe wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
ROBERT BURNSFarewell, 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.
ROBERT BURNSPleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
ROBERT BURNSDare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNSKings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
ROBERT BURNSBut 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 BURNSLearn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNSPainters and poets have liberty to lie.
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 BURNSSuspense is worst than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNSThe heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
ROBERT BURNSOr like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNS