black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Robert Burns

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.
ROBERT BURNS

Fools Freedom Ourselves Power
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Himself Live World
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
ROBERT BURNS

Gift Ourselves Power See
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNS

Brave Dare Fear Honesty
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
ROBERT BURNS

Bloom Flower Happiness Nature Wisdom
My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
ROBERT BURNS

Dreams Fantasy Heart Myself Yourself
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
ROBERT BURNS

Fools Right Rule Son Wisdom
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
ROBERT BURNS

Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
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

Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
ROBERT BURNS

Cry Death Loud Nature Sky Voice
Nae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNS

Change Man One Liner Time
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
ROBERT BURNS

Silver Wine
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNS

Care Control Root Wisdom
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNS

Desire Learning Nature Spark
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
ROBERT BURNS

Love Man Wisdom
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
ROBERT BURNS

Himself Man Work

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Robert Burns Quotes