black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.

Robert Burns

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
ROBERT BURNS

Blessing Glory King Life Victory
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 BURNS

Gold Life Light Myself Wings
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
ROBERT BURNS

Domination Myself Nature Social Sorry True
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!
ROBERT BURNS

Best Count Death Humanity Kind Law Man Nature
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS

Human Mourning Silver
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Planning Time
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
ROBERT BURNS

Honesty King Man Poor
When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
ROBERT BURNS

Cold Forest November Winds
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
ROBERT BURNS

Fools Right Rule Son Wisdom
Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
ROBERT BURNS

Play Red Rose
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Himself Live World
God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
ROBERT BURNS

Atheist God Hide Myself Time
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
ROBERT BURNS

Commission Life Oneself Time
A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
ROBERT BURNS

Integrity Meaning Mindset Performance
Life is but a day at most.
ROBERT BURNS

Life One Liner Time
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Happiness Morning Nature Wind
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
ROBERT BURNS

Bath Flower Ourselves Violence
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Guide Honesty Support True Wisdom
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
ROBERT BURNS

Love Man Wisdom
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
ROBERT BURNS

heavy Protection Weight
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
ROBERT BURNS

Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
To step aside is human.
ROBERT BURNS

Human One Liner
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNS

Critics Fame Path Struggle
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
ROBERT BURNS

Bloom Flower Forever Happiness Moments River
Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
ROBERT BURNS

Fun Money Myself Name Rhyme Thinking
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNS

Disappointment One Liner Worst

She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Robert Burns Quotes