It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
ROBERT BURNSThere’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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