Top 100 Quotes About Robert Burns
#1. Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.
Jimmy Reid
#2. Robert Burns said it best: Life is but a day at most.
Anne Lamott
#3. For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.
Len G. Murray
#4. Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
Robert Burns
Robert Burns
#5. Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to such radiant white heart of child-likeness, it would be impossible to find a perfect counterpart.
Sister Nivedita
#6. On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.
Katherine Paterson
#7. And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.
Len G. Murray
#8. There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.
Len G. Murray
#9. The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
Robert Burns
#10. How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
Robert Burns
#11. 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.
Robert Burns
#12. Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
Robert Burns
#13. Some books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd ...
Robert Burns
#14. 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
#15. Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
Robert Burns
#16. His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Robert Burns
#19. Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.
Robert Burns
#20. Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry ... Friendship ... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.
Robert Burns
#22. Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.
Robert Burns
#23. Even thou who mournst the daisies fate, that fate is thine.
Robert Burns
#25. They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!
Robert Burns
#26. Through and through the inspired leaves,
Ye maggots, make your windings;
But, oh! respect his lordship's taste,
And spare his golden bindings.
Robert Burns
#27. Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
Robert Burns
#28. Then gently scan your brother
man,
still gentler sister woman, though they may gang
a kennin wrang, to step aside is human
Robert Burns
#29. 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.
Robert Burns
#30. I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
Robert Burns
#31. Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
Robert Burns
#32. Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, that fate is thine.
Robert Burns
#33. Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
Robert Burns
#34. The golden hours on angel wings
Flew o'er me and my dearie,
For dear to me as light and life
Was my sweet Highland Mary.
Robert Burns
#35. There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Robert Burns
#36. The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And ev'n the rigid feature:
Yet ne'er with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange
For deity offended.
Robert Burns
#37. Go fetch to me a pint o' wine,
An' fill it in a silver tassie.
Robert Burns
#38. I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.
Robert Burns
#39. We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.
Robert Burns
#40. A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty That polishes the dart.
Robert Burns
#42. Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.
Robert Burns
#43. Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
Robert Burns
#44. Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
Robert Burns
#45. As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
Robert Burns
#46. Dear Sir, I'll gie ye some advice,
You'll tak it no uncivil:
You shouldna paint at angels, man,
But try and paint the Devil.
To paint an angel's kittle wark,
Wi' Nick there's little danger;
You'll easy draw a lang-kent face,
But no sae weel a stranger.
Robert Burns
#47. See Social-life and Glee sit down,
All joyous and unthinking,
Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown
Debauchery and Drinking
Robert Burns
#48. She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.
Robert Burns
#49. Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body - Need a body cry?
Robert Burns
#50. 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
#52. I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!
Robert Burns
#54. Oh heart! Oh blood that freezes, blood that burns! Earth's returns For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin! Shut them in, With their triumphs and their glories and the rest! Love is best. "Love Among the Ruins," Robert Browning, 1885
Craig Johnson
#55. And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
Robert Burns
#56. The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
Robert Burns
#57. Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns
#58. 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
#59. Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.
Robert Burns
#60. We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free.
Robert Burns
#61. What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Robert Burns
#62. 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
#63. I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
Robert Burns
#64. At length his lonely cot appears in view,
Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'
To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.
Robert Burns
#65. The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
Robert Burns
#66. And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
Robert Burns
#67. I found that old Solomon proved it fair,
That a big-belly'd bottle's a cure for all care.
Robert Burns
#68. My love is like the red red rose
That's newly sprung in June
O my love's like the melody
That's newly played in tune
Robert Burns
#69. Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.
Robert Burns
#70. Oh my luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June;
Oh my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
Robert Burns
#71. My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
Robert Burns
#72. Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.
Robert Burns
#74. To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!
Robert Burns
#75. I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.
Robert Burns
#76. A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
Robert Burns
#77. What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
Robert Burns
#78. O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!
Robert Burns
#79. A fig for those by law protected!
Liberty's a glorious feast!
Courts for cowards were erected,
Churches built to please the priest!
Robert Burns
#80. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Robert Burns
#81. Now Nature hangs her mantle green
On every blooming tree,
And spreads her sheets o'daisies white
Out o'er the grassy lea.
Robert Burns
#82. O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like schoolboys, at the expected warning,
To joy and play.
Robert Burns
#83. Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.
Robert Burns
#84. The wisest man the warl' e'er saw,
He dearly loved the lasses, O.
Robert Burns
#85. Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash;
Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash;
Some rhyme to court the countra clash,
An' raise a din;
For me, an aim I never fash;
I rhyme for fun.
Robert Burns
#87. Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
Robert Burns
#88. Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
To murder men and gie God thanks
Desist for shame, proceed no further
God won't accept your thanks for murder.
Robert Burns
#89. Such is the fate of simple Bard,
On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd
Robert Burns
#90. 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
#91. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!
Robert Burns
#92. Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Robert Burns
#93. For gold the merchant ploughs the main,
The farmer ploughs the manor.
Robert Burns
#94. Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
Robert Burns
#95. Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
Robert Burns
#97. 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
#98. Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met -- or never parted --
we had ne'er been broken-hearted
Robert Burns
#99. I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odors good or bad, the rainbow of colors; the gleaming vessels of every size, shape and purpose.
Robert Burns Woodward
#100. God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
Robert Burns
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