Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
ROBERT BURNSLearn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
More Robert Burns Quotes
-
-
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
ROBERT BURNS -
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 -
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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 -
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
ROBERT BURNS -
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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 -
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
ROBERT BURNS -
A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
ROBERT BURNS -
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
ROBERT BURNS -
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
ROBERT BURNS -
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
ROBERT BURNS -
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
ROBERT BURNS -
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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