Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNSThe best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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.
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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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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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