| 113 Famous Quotes by Robert Burns
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“Suspense is worse than disappointment.”
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“Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.”
Opera Quotes |
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“I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.”
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“Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang
To step aside is human.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Address to Unco Guid
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“Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Man Was Made to Mourn
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“Inspiring bold John Barleycorn,
What dangers thou canst make us scorn!
Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil;
Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Tam o' Shanter (l. 105)
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“O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: To a Louse
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“Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Whistle, and I'll Come to You (act IV, sc. 4)
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“Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.”
Wives Quotes Source: Henpecked Husband
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“She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a bonny wee thing,
This sweet wee wife o' mine.”
Wives Quotes Source: My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing
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“Duncan Gray cam here to woo,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't!
On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't!
Maggie coost her head fu' high,
Looked asklent and unco skeigh,
Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh:
Ha, ha! the wooing o't!”
Wooing Quotes Source: Duncan Gray
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“The landlady and Tam grew gracious
Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious.”
Wooing Quotes Source: Tam o'Shanter (st. 7)
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“And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan
A lady fair.
Wha does the utmost that he can
Will whyles do mair.”
Wooing Quotes Source: To Dr. Blackjack
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“Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' lang syne?”
Friendship Quotes Source: Auld Lang Syne, Burns refers to these words as an old folk song
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“I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view,
For its like a baumy kiss o'er her sweet bonnie mou'!”
Roses Quotes Source: The Posie
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“Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew,
How pure amang the leaves sae green!”
Roses Quotes Source: To Chloris
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“And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.”
Cowslips Quotes Source: The Chevalier's Lament
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“Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.”
Cowslips Quotes Source: Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson
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“A man's a man for a' that!”
Man Quotes Source: For A' That and A' That
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“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.”
Man Quotes Source: For A' That and A' That
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“The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.”
Man Quotes Source: For A' That and A' That
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“Man,--whose heaven-erected face
The smiles of love adorn,--
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!”
Man Quotes Source: Man Was Made to Mourn
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“To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
I must needs say comparisons are odd.”
Comparisons Quotes Source: Brigs of Ayr (l. 177)
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“John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonny brow was brent.”
Past Quotes Source: John Anderson
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“Hear how he clears the points o' Faith
Wi' rattling an' thumpin'!
Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath,
He's stampin', and he's jumpin'!”
Preaching Quotes Source: Holy Fair (st. 13)
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Robert Burns Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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