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Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman. — George Burns

The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. — Robert Burns

Some wee short hour ayont the twal. — Robert Burns

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last. — Veronica Roth

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it. — Yukio Mishima

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. — Boris Yeltsin

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders. — Ursula Burns

Acting on a blue screen is awful. — Steve Burns

Whenever an elder dies, a library burns down. — Amadou Hampate Ba

A woman so strong she burns heaven and drenches hell. Alaska would have liked this Rabe'a woman. — John Green

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. — George Burns

Loneliness burns in towers of fire around us — Christopher Poindexter

When a story teller dies, a library burns. — Evan Turk

I am singing now while Rome
burns. — Richard Siken

My face is melting. The goopy blob that was my forehead is slipping south, its molten heat softening everything in its path. — T.R. Burns

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing. — Robert McKee

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail. — Donnie Burns

An REI worker had encouraged me to buy a box of Spenco 2nd Skin - gel patches meant to treat burns that also happened to be great for blisters. — Cheryl Strayed

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories. — Caroline Rhea

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns

Your light burns so bright. I never had a chance. Your fire enchants me, and I'd do anything to be near this fire, even if it meant death. — K. Webster

I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside. — William J. Clinton

Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us. — Robert Burns

OMG, I am a married woman! — Brooke Burns

My joy burns brighter when I tend to the glowing hearth fires of home. — Thomas Kinkade

Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else" — Billy Connolly

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother. — Ursula Burns

The best plans of men and mice often go awry. — Robert Burns

Infatuation burns itself out,' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry
that can last a lifetime. — Tess Callahan

Who expects trouble gets trouble. — Donnie Burns

A bird in the hand is worth plucking, frying, and sticking between two bits of bread. — Edward Burns

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they're stupid. — Burnie Burns

My love is like the red red rose
That's newly sprung in June
O my love's like the melody
That's newly played in tune — Robert Burns

And now that Reason's light returns, New sorrow in his spirit burns. — Sophocles

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check. — Edward Burns

It is never acceptable for us to be the cause of any child to feel unloved or worthless. — Joel Burns

The fact that I'm on CNN today is something I never would have guessed as a 13-year-old - or any other age, for that matter. — Joel Burns

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

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left — George Burns

It's like holding a hot coal in your hand, it just burns you, it doesn't do me any good. — Joe Lauzon

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game. — Leigh Steinberg

I hope your bacon burns. — Diana Wynne Jones

I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player. — Pat Burns

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it. — George Burns

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that. — Robert Burns

But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person. — Olive Ann Burns

Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green! — Robert Burns

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way. — John Burns

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby. — Steve Burns

My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere. — Normandi Ellis

Now you know how much my love for you
burns deep in me
when I forget about our emptiness,
and deal with shadows as with solid things. — Dante Alighieri

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. — George Burns

So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain. — Isaac Watts

My heart is sair-I dare na tell,
My heart is sair for Somebody. — Robert Burns

You are ice and fire
The touch of you burns my hands like snow — Amy Lowell

The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood. — Chanakya

Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch! — George Burns

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible. — Andrew Davidson

When all you have is the darkness of hate, kindness is a beacon that burns bright. — Reyna Pryde

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. — Zubin Mehta

Uh, Miss, you have second and third degree burns that need treatment,"he said.
"They'll be okay. I'll just use concealer for a while. — Cinda Williams Chima

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. — George Burns

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating. — Brooke Burns

I read the line over and over as if I might discern the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns — Natasha Trethewey

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries. — George Burns

Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the darkness closes in ... I love you — Steven Strait

My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics. — Joel Burns

Every old man that dies is a library that burns. — Amadou Hampate Ba

Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing. — Clarence H. Burns

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. — Robert Burns

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes. — David D. Burns

Persecution, like fire, burns up the weak elements (wood and hay) but actually purifies the strong ones (silver and gold). It — Jefferson Bethke

Your mom said to say I could have just one peanut butter square but not til after they cool down. — Breehn Burns

If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed. — Amy Lowell

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. — Ken Burns

Put this on your list of things to know: the combination of tinsel, baby angel wings, and manger hay burns like weed at a Miley Cyrus concert. — Stephanie Perkins

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. — Friedrich Schiller

The Thames is liquid history. — John Burns

Fear, greed, and ego are very expensive monkeys to have on your back while trading. — Steve Burns

If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again. — George Burns

If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it. — George Burns

What else can we do
but garden our shadows
while far away
the universe burns and vanishes. — Andree Chedid

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame. — Ray Bradbury

You don't have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined. — Lauren Burns

Show me the science. Last I heard, gay six-year-olds remain unproven. — Vernon D. Burns

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. — Robert Burns

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past — Ken Burns

George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there. — Red Buttons

The flame is not out, but it is flickering. — Ken Burns

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime. — Charles Dickens

He who burns with ambition to become aedile, tribune, praetor, consul, dictator, cries out that he loves his country and he loves only himself. — John Ralston Saul

I don't say anything because he's got fire inside him for sure, and fire burns. — Dawn Kurtagich

The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me. — Tyra Banks

His lips are so close to my ear I'm water and nothing and everything and melting into a wanting so desperate it burns as I swallow it down. — Tahereh Mafi

The Green Ember burns; the seed of the New World smolders. Healing is on the horizon, but a fire comes first. Bear the flame. — S.D. Smith

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy. — Ursula Burns

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them. — Edward Burns

I've learned when you drink Absolut straight, it burns enough to give my chest hairs a perm. — Method Man

War is the worst thing that can happen to us, it is worse than a disease; it set our hearts on fire and burns our souls to dust. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

When love burns toward the Savior a sincere passion to render obedience to all of His precepts is our desire, our delight and our holy obsession. — Albert Martin