Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
ROBERT BURNSSuspense is worst than disappointment.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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To step aside is human.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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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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