The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
ROBERT BURNSMan’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
More Robert Burns Quotes
-
-
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.
ROBERT BURNS -
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNS -
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.
ROBERT BURNS -
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
ROBERT BURNS -
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNS -
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 -
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNS -
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
ROBERT BURNS -
An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
ROBERT BURNS -
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
ROBERT BURNS -
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
ROBERT BURNS -
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
ROBERT BURNS -
When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
ROBERT BURNS -
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNS -
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