Burns Night Quotes: top 22 famous quotes about Burns Night

Burns Night Quotes & Sayings

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I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else? — Eric Hill

In the dark times will there be singing?
Yes. There will be singing about the dark times. — Bertolt Brecht

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice. — Stephen Fry

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful. — Linford Christie

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends
It gives a lovely light! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Grandpa had made the Lord seem so real, I wouldn't of been surprised if he'd said good night to Him. But after a long pause he just said a-men. — Olive Ann Burns

Hope is misleading, hope is cruel, but hope is all we have. — Meredith Black

But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently. — Elizabeth McCracken

Never find your delight in another's misfortune. — Publilius Syrus

I honestly hate wearing makeup. — Kylie Jenner

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane. — Robert Burns

In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I'll reply: Eden burns. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them. — Leonardo Da Vinci

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night. — George Burns

My mother used to say you should eat like a king in the morning, a queen at noon, and a pauper at night — K.S.R. Burns

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. — Gertrude Jekyll

If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself. — David Lynch

I'm a Freemason, and we love to celebrate Burns' night: piping in the haggis, the whole lot. — Rick Wakeman

My mom on Pitbull: 'I'm glad he's a star, b/c if he wasn't and I just saw him on the street I'd think he was going to steal from me.' — Sasheer Zamata

I feel scalded inside. Like, third-degree burns. But no one can see them. (Fliss talking about her divorce.) — Sophie Kinsella

I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week. — Lee Westwood

I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations. — Alanis Morissette