Robert Burns Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Burns
Robert Burns Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Unmatch'd at the bottle, unconquer'd in war, He drank his poor god-ship as deep as the sea; No tide of the Baltic e'er drunker than he.
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art ...
If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.
Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty That polishes the dart.
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
But deep this truth impress'd my mind:
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God.
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God.
Humid seal of soft affections,
Tend'rest pledge of future bliss,
Dearest tie of young connections,
Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
Tend'rest pledge of future bliss,
Dearest tie of young connections,
Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
See Social-life and Glee sit down,
All joyous and unthinking,
Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown
Debauchery and Drinking
All joyous and unthinking,
Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown
Debauchery and Drinking
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.
Now Nature hangs her mantle green
On every blooming tree,
And spreads her sheets o'daisies white
Out o'er the grassy lea.
On every blooming tree,
And spreads her sheets o'daisies white
Out o'er the grassy lea.
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
[Brigs of Ayr]
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
[Brigs of Ayr]
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!
And love but her forever;
For nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!
Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.
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.
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.
Her robe assume its vernal hues
Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,
All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.
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.
Flew o'er me and my dearie,
For dear to me as light and life
Was my sweet Highland Mary.
Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.
I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!
For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.
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!
Then gently scan your brother
man,
still gentler sister woman, though they may gang
a kennin wrang, to step aside is human
man,
still gentler sister woman, though they may gang
a kennin wrang, to step aside is human