There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
ROBERT BURNSThe best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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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.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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