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Robert Burns Quotes - Page 2

All Quotes Art Atheist Bliss Disappointment Drinking Faith Fate Friendship Fun God Grief Heart Heaven Hell Home Honesty Inspirational Kissing Laughter Learning Liberty Life Love Lying Mankind Morning Nature Pain Pleasure Son Spring Summer Teaching Temptation Time Wife

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

Inspirational, Hope, Spring

Robert Burns, Robert P. Irvine (2013). “Selected Poems and Songs”, p.307, Oxford University Press

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.

Should, God Knows, Knows

Robert Burns, James CURRIE (M.D.) (1826). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns ... Including All the Pieces Originally Published by Dr. Currie; with Various Additions. A New Edition, with an Enlarged and Corrected Glossary, and a Biographical Sketch of the Author”, p.131

A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.

Sex, Cutting, Men

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.

Love, Romantic, Forever

Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.188

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

Lying, Liberty, Painting

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

Men, Best Laid Plans, Planning

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

Prayer, Country Love, Scotland

Robert Burns, James Currie (1835). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings”, p.123

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Learning, Silence, Motto

Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

Military, Damn

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Armor, Weight, Heavy

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

Sky, Voice, Messages

Robert Burns (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Burns (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics

Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

Definitions, Mankind

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Men, Dying, Opera

Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

Rocks, Balance, Weight

Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie.

Wine, Fetch, Silver

'My Heart's in the Highlands' (1790)

She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.

Sweet, Wife, Handsome

Robert Burns (1856). “The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers. Libr. ed”, p.247

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

Matter, Faces, Desperate

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Cutting, Criticism, Path

Robert Burns, James Currie (1829). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His Writings”, p.65

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

Country, Sweet, Son

Robert Burns, P. Austin Nuttall (1866). “The poetical works of Robert Burns”, p.63

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

World, Wide

Robert Burns, Gilbert BURNS, Allan Cunningham (1840). “The Works of Robert Burns. With Life by Allan Cunningham, and Notes by Gilbert Burns [and Others], Etc. [With a Portrait and Facsimiles.]”, p.365

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted

Broken, Forever, And Love

Robert Burns, “A Fond Kiss”

Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

Nature, Work, Men

'Green Grow the Rashes' (1787)

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.

Drinking, Divine, Brandy

'The Holy Fair' (1786) st. 27

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.

Friendship, Laughter, Please Me

Robert Burns (1825). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Letters, Songs, His Letters to Clarinda, and the Whole of His Suppressed Poems: with an Essay on His Life, Genius, and Character [signed: J. B.]. MS. Notes”, p.440

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

Motivational, Wisdom, Power

Robert Burns (2009). “Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com

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