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Mankind is a science that defies definitions. ~ Robert Burns
When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare. ~ Robert Burns
O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I! ~ Robert Burns
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. ~ Robert Burns
Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change. ~ Robert Burns
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. ~ Robert Burns
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. ~ Robert Burns
To step aside is human. ~ Robert Burns
Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee. ~ Robert Burns
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. ~ Robert Burns
Nae man can tether time or tide. ~ Robert Burns
Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining. ~ Robert Burns
[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect. ~ Robert Burns
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation. ~ Robert Burns
Ingersoll is with Homer and Tully and Shakespeare and Burns. ~ William Stewart Ross
All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it. ~ Robert Burns
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ~ Robert Burns
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. ~ Robert Burns
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie! ~ Robert Burns
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! ~ Robert Burns
Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom. ~ Robert Burns
There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy. ~ Robert Burns
Flow gently, sweet Afton,
amang thy green braes,
Flow gently, I'll sing thee
a song in thy praise;
My Mary's asleep
by thy murmuring stream,
Flow gently, sweet Afton,
disturb not her dream.
Thou stock dove whose echo
resounds thro' the glen,
Ye wild whistly blackbirds
in yon thorny den,
Thou green crested lapwing
thy screaming forbear,
I charge you, disturb not
my slumbering fair.
How lofty, sweet Afton,
thy neighboring hills,
Far mark'd with the courses
of clear winding rills;
There daily I wander
as noon rises high,
My flocks and my Mary's
sweet cot in my eye.
How pleasant thy banks
and green valleys below,
Where, wild in the woodlands,
the primroses blow;
There oft, as mild evening
weeps over the lea,
The sweet-scented birk shades
my Mary and me.
Thy crystal stream, Afton,
how lovely it glides,
And winds by the cot where
my Mary resides;
How wanton thy waters
her snowy feet lave,
As, gathering sweet flowerets,
she stems thy clear wave.
Flow gently, sweet Afton,
amang thy green braes,
Flow gently, sweet river,
the theme of my lays;
My Mary's asleep
by thy murmuring stream,
Flow gently, sweet Afton,
disturb not her dreams. ~ Robert Burns
Anticipation forward points the view. ~ Robert Burns
If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
One cordial in this melancholy vale,
'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair
In other's arms breathe out the tender tale ~ Robert Burns
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley. ~ Robert Burns
ODE TO A HAGGIS
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great Chieftan o' the Puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm
The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
You pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o'need
While thro' your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead
His knife see Rustic-labour dight,
An' cut you up wi' ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reeking, rich!
Then, horn for horn they stretch an' strive,
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive
Bethankit hums
Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi' perfect sconner,
Looks down wi' sneering, scornfu' view
On sic a dinner?
Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither'd rash
His spindle-shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro' bluidy flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!
But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll mak it whissle;
An' legs, an' arms an' heads will sned,Robert Burns
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. ~ Robert Burns
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free. ~ Robert Burns
John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy. ~ Robert Burns
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies. ~ Robert Burns
Such is the fate of simple Bard,
On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd ~ Robert Burns
The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And ev'n the rigid feature:
Yet ne'er with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange
For deity offended. ~ Robert Burns
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine. ~ Robert Burns
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. ~ Robert Burns
Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes,
And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays;
Come let us spend the lightsome days
In the birks of Aberfeldy. ~ Robert Burns
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. ~ Robert Burns
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root. ~ Robert Burns
Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone! ~ Robert Burns
Oh the gift that god could give us, to see ourselves as others see others. ~ Robert Burns
Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. ~ Robert Burns
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ~ Robert Burns
Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body - Need a body cry? ~ Robert Burns
Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced ~ Robert Burns
Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new. ~ Robert Burns
Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted. ~ Robert Burns
'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy! ~ Robert Burns
Great for good, or great for evil. ~ Robert Burns
Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best! ~ Robert Burns
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
The fate of empires and the fall of kings;
While quacks of State must each produce his plan,
And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
The Rights of Woman merit some attention. ~ Robert Burns
I 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. ~ Robert Burns
I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! ~ Robert Burns
God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen. ~ Robert Burns
At length his lonely cot appears in view,
Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'
To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. ~ Robert Burns
Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil. ~ Robert Burns
Burns, has spent years exploring the many avenues for adventure and fun in San Diego. The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains and ocean in the course of a day has always been amazing to me. If you are really motivated, you can snow ski, surf, take a mountain hike, and race dune buggies all in one weekend, .. I grew up here and want to showcase San Diego to the world. I love San Diego. ~ Robert Burns
Who made the heart, 'tis He alone
Decidedly can try us ~ Robert Burns
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy! ~ Robert Burns
Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises. ~ Robert Burns
Life is but a day at most. ~ Robert Burns
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour. ~ Robert Burns
The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play ... ~ Robert Burns
But facts are chiels that winna ding,
An' downa be disputed. ~ Robert Burns
Through and through the inspired leaves,
Ye maggots, make your windings;
But, oh! respect his lordship's taste,
And spare his golden bindings. ~ Robert Burns
Here's freedom to him who would read;
Here's freedom to him who would write;
None ever feared that the truth should be heard,
But them that the truth would indict. ~ Robert Burns
The honest man, though e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men, for a' that! ~ Robert Burns
God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be. ~ Robert Burns
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright! ~ Robert Burns
Suspense is worst than disappointment. ~ Robert Burns
A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform. ~ Robert Burns
For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!" ~ Robert Burns
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed. ~ Robert Burns
In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. ~ Robert Burns
My love is like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June:
My love is like the melody
That's sweetly played in tune.
How fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till all the seas gang dry.
Till all the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt with the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands of life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only love.
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my love,
Though it were ten thousand mile. ~ Robert Burns
And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. ~ Robert Burns
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average. ~ Robert Burns
When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man. ~ Robert Burns
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete. ~ Robert Burns
Dear Sir, I'll gie ye some advice,
You'll tak it no uncivil:
You shouldna paint at angels, man,
But try and paint the Devil.
To paint an angel's kittle wark,
Wi' Nick there's little danger;
You'll easy draw a lang-kent face,
But no sae weel a stranger. ~ Robert Burns
I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart. ~ Robert 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
Wha Is That At My Bower-Door
1783
Wha is that at my bower-door?
O wha is it but Findlay!
Then gae your gate, ye'se nae be here:
Indeed maun I, quo' Findlay;
What mak' ye, sae like a thief?
O come and see, quo' Findlay;
Before the morn ye'll work mischief:
Indeed will I, quo' Findlay.
Gif I rise and let you in-
Let me in, quo' Findlay;
Ye'll keep me waukin wi' your din;"
Indeed will I, quo' Findlay;
In my bower if ye should stay-
Let me stay, quo' Findlay;
I fear ye'll bide till break o' day;
Indeed will I, quo' Findlay.
Here this night if ye remain-
I'll remain, quo' Findlay;
I dread ye'll learn the gate again;
Indeed will I, quo' Findlay.
What may pass within this bower-
Let it pass, quo' Findlay;
Ye maun conceal till your last hour:
Indeed will I, quo' Findlay. ~ Robert Burns
God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel. ~ Robert Burns
Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, that fate is thine. ~ Robert Burns
By Oppression's woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die! ~ Robert Burns
Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. ~ Robert Burns
We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago. ~ Robert Burns
Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green! ~ Robert Burns
The wisest man the warl' e'er saw,
He dearly loved the lasses, O. ~ Robert Burns
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. ~ Robert Burns
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art ... ~ Robert Burns
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. ~ Robert Burns
The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend. ~ Robert Burns
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither. ~ Robert Burns
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
Robert Burns ~ Robert Burns
O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like schoolboys, at the expected warning,
To joy and play. ~ Robert Burns
The best plans of men and mice often go awry. ~ Robert Burns
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. ~ Robert Burns
Then gently scan your brother
man,
still gentler sister woman, though they may gang
a kennin wrang, to step aside is human ~ Robert Burns
Not the bee upon the blossom,
In the pride o' sunny noon;
Not the little sporting fairy,
All beneath the simmer moon;
Not the poet, in the moment
Fancy lightens in his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi'es to me. ~ Robert Burns
