The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
ROBERT BURNSI 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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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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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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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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