Robert Burns

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.
Robert Burns

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.
Robert Burns

Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
Robert Burns

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

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
Robert Burns

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
Robert Burns

the best made plans of mice and men often go astray
Robert Burns

Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
Robert Burns

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever
Robert Burns

Let us do or die.
Robert Burns

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
Robert Burns

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
Robert Burns

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
Robert Burns

Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Robert Burns

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Robert Burns

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

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
Robert Burns

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
Robert Burns

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Robert Burns

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

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Robert Burns

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Robert Burns

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
Robert Burns

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

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.
Robert Burns