Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
ROBERT BURNSLife is but a day at most.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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When 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.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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To step aside is human.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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