If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
ROBERT BURNSGod 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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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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