There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
ROBERT BURNSThe trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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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.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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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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