33 Quotations by Robert Burns
- 1. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

- 2. And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

- 3. Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. ...

- 4. Critics! Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.

- 5. Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

- 6. Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised th ...

- 7. Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath, to keep it warm

- 8. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we ha ...

- 9. Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing

- 10. How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

- 11. I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

- 12. I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid ...

- 13. I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discr ...

- 14. If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.

- 15. Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

- 16. Let us do or die.

- 17. Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

- 18. Nature's mighty law is change.

- 19. O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.
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- 20. Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie That's ...

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