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 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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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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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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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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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