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.
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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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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.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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