Robert Burns famous quotes

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
-- Robert Burns

#Inspirational #Knowledge #Learning

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

#Inspirational #Certainty #Cockiness

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
-- Robert Burns

#Country #Sweet #Son

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

#Fields #Forests #November

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

#Armor #Weight #Heavy

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

#Determination #Character #Adversity

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted
-- Robert Burns

#Broken #Forever #Sae

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

#Struggle #Mind #Offensive

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

#Laughter #Laughing #Doubt

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
-- Robert Burns

#Honesty #Ethics #Being Honest

Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
-- Robert Burns

#Kissing #Snow #Firsts

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

#Wisdom #Roots #Self

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
-- Robert Burns

#Hope #Spring #Wings

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

#Men #Best Laid Plans #Planning

Suspense is worse than disappointment.
-- Robert Burns

#Disappointment #Anxiety #Suspense

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

#Love #Romantic #Forever

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

#God #Men #War On Drugs

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

#Violet #Woodland #Snowdrops

Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.
-- Robert Burns

#Ale #Delicate

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
-- Robert Burns

#Life #World #Bliss

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
-- Robert Burns

#Lying #Liberty #Painting

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
-- Robert Burns

#Silence #Motto

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

#Pain #Fall #Son

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.
-- Robert Burns

#Foolish #Embarrassment #Blunders

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

#Morning #Spring #Locks

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
-- Robert Burns

#Cheer #Autumn #Yellow

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
-- Robert Burns

#Teacher #Nature #Teaching

If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
-- Robert Burns

#Care

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

#Mean #Term

Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
-- Robert Burns

#Kissing #Ties #Snow

Anticipation forward points the view.
-- Robert Burns

#Views #Anticipation

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.
-- Robert Burns

#Drinking #Divine #Brandy

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

#Summer #Play #Blink

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
-- Robert Burns

#Summer #Play #Crystals

Once upon a Lammas Night When corn rigs are bonny, Beneath the Moon's unclouded light, I held awhile to Annie... The time went by with careless heed Between the late and early, With small persuasion she agreed To see me through the barley... Corn rigs and barley rigs, Corn rigs are bonny! I'll not forget that happy night Among the rigs with Annie!
-- Robert Burns

#Summer #Moon #Night

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!
-- Robert Burns

#Military #Lord #Vain

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

#Cutting #Path #Fame

It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.
-- Robert Burns

#Body #Sour #Pow

Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
-- Robert Burns

#Blow #Liberty

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

#Eye #Men #Mind

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
-- Robert Burns

#Voice #Sky #Messages

Some books are lies frae end to end.
-- Robert Burns

#Lying #Book #Ends

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

#Heaven #Arms #Pairs

Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.
-- Robert Burns

#Time #Night #Men

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

#Heart #Longing #My Heart

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

#Kings #Children #Fall

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
-- Robert Burns

#Flower #Fall #Rivers

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns
-- Robert Burns

#Nursing #Wrath

But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! Still you are blest, compared with me!
-- Robert Burns

#Pain #Grief #Men