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 BURNSI pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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