Robert Burns Quotations

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

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.

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

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

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

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

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Gi'e me a spark o' Nature's fire that's a' the learning I desire.

He turn'd him right and round about / Upon the Irish shore; / And gae his bridle-reins a shake, / With adieu for evermore, / My dear,/ Adieu for evermore.

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

I think that he believed there was some extramarital thing going on.

I think if we had a skate park we'd be a lot more safer then just going out on the streets and skateboarding and it would just keep kids off the streets generally.

The actions that were taken have affected many more people than the two people involved.

My brother knew this young lady. They went to high school together. It's not like they met one another recently. They've known each other for years.

We're trying to help the county get the workforce, ... If you have courses for student teachers in Charlotte County, they're more likely to stay in Charlotte County after they graduate.

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

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

What signifies the life o' man, An' 'twere na for the lasses O

Fain would I hide what I fear to discover

We like to involve the students ù really, if it wasn't for the students, we wouldn't be here.

Public opinion would have gone against us had we continued.

Auld nature swears, the lovely dears / Her noblest work she classes O; / Her prentice han' she tried on man, / An' then she made the lasses O.

This is the first data being collected anywhere in the country under a new national air quality monitoring program. Monitoring at other locations will get under way in 2006, but we're setting the stage for future poultry and other livestock production facility air emissions monitoring under this program.

This group definitely has something that's unique, you're not gonna find something like this anywhere else.

They've come to realize how much it can hurt them to withhold information. I think they're starting to recognize that more than they did in the past.

A lot of this depends on us getting the land and the funding from the Legislature, ... We're talking with some developers about various sites.

There was three Kings into the east, / Three kings both great and high, / And they hae sworn a solemn oath / John Barleycorn should die.

There's a certain amount of skepticism that's natural. You just have to judge the particular person you're taking to.

The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy

It's amazing how fast you can get up over the calorie limit, especially when you're on the road or eating at home.

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion

They can't see the forest for the trees. They get hung up on looking at the individual tree being cut, and can't see the benefit of the landscape as a whole.

It's really addictive. Personally, it's the highlight of my week to be able to play with some talented played and some challenging music.

Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains and ocean in the course of a day has always been amazing to me. If you are really motivated, you can snow ski, surf, take a mountain hike, and race dune buggies all in one weekend. I grew up here and want to showcase San Diego to the world. I love San Diego.

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! / What dangers thou canst make us scorn! / Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; / Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!

But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, That when nae real ills perplex them, They make enow themsel's to vex them

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever

Ah, gentle dames! It gars me greet / To think how mony counsels sweet, / How mony lengthen'd sage advices, / The husband frae the wife despises!

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!

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.

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

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.

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.

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

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.

Nae man can tether time or tide.

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

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.

Life is but a day at most.

And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.

Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.

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.

Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.

Burns, has spent years exploring the many avenues for adventure and fun in San Diego. The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains and ocean in the course of a day has always been amazing to me. If you are really motivated, you can snow ski, surf, take a mountain hike, and race dune buggies all in one weekend, .. I grew up here and want to showcase San Diego to the world. I love San Diego.

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

O, my luve is like a red, red rose.

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

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.

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

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

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.

A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! . . . Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!

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!

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

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!

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

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.

Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.

Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

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.

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.

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

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.

To step aside is human.