| 113 Famous Quotes by Robert Burns
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“There's some are fou o' love divine,
There's some are fou' o' brandy.”
Drinking Quotes Source: The Holy Fair (st. 30)
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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!”
Drinking Quotes Source: Tam o' Shanter (l. 105)
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“What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.”
Action Quotes Source: Address to Unco Guild (st. 8)
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“Let us do or die.”
Action Quotes Source: Bannockburn
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“The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend.”
World Quotes Source: Strathallan's Lament
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“Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea;
Ye stately foxgloves fair to see!
Ye woodbines, hanging bonnilie
In scented bowers!
Ye roses on your thorny tree
The first o' flow'rs.”
Flowers Quotes Source: Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson
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“Now blooms the lily by the bank,
The primrose down the brae;
The hawthorn's budding in the glen,
The milkwhite is the slae.”
Flowers Quotes Source: Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots
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“The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn,
And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.”
Flowers Quotes Source: My Nanny's Awa
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“Some wee short hour ayont the twal.”
Time Quotes Source: Death and Mr. Hornbook
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“Nae man can tether time or tide.”
Time Quotes Source: Tam o' Shanter
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“And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.”
Argument Quotes Source: The Twa Dogs
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“Oh, 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.”
Vanity Quotes Source: To a Louse
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“Now a' is done that men can do,
And a' is done in vain.”
Failure Quotes Source: It Was a' for our Rightfu' King
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“Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.”
Content Quotes Source: Contented wi' Little
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“I'll be merry and free,
I'll be sad for nae-body;
If nae-body cares for me,
I'll care for nae-body.”
Content Quotes Source: Nae-body
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“Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die.”
Liberty Quotes Source: Bruce to His Men at Bannockburn
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“Some hae meat, and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.”
Toasts Quotes Source: The Selkirk Grace, as often attributed to him, but probably not his
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“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.”
Wine and spirits Quotes Source: John Barleycorn
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“They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!”
Prayer Quotes Source: The Cotter's Saturday Night (st. 6)
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“Facts are cheels that winna ding,
An' downs be disputed.”
Opinion Quotes Source: A Dream
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“Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of wo.”
Sensibility Quotes Source: Sweet Sensibility
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“Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.”
Patriotism Quotes Source: Dumfries Volunteers
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“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!”
Love of country Quotes Source: Cotter's Saturday Night (st. 20)
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“Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.”
Apparel Quotes Source: The Cotter's Saturday Night
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“His locked, lettered, braw brass collar,
Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.”
Apparel Quotes Source: The Twa Dogs
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