The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
ROBERT BURNSGie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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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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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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