Robert Burns quotes a Scottish poet Born: 01/25/1759 Died: 07/21/1796 Country: united_kingdom

• Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see ourselvs as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. (Robert Burns) [power]
• There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. (Robert Burns) [thing]
• The best plans of men and mice often go awry. (Robert Burns) [men]
• Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. (Robert Burns)
• Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto. (Robert Burns)
• Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. (Robert Burns) [fame]
• Some have meat, and cannot eat, And some cannot eat that want it; But we have meat, and we can eat - And let the Lord be thanked. (Robert Burns) [lord]
• Oh, my luve is like a red, red rose, That is newly sprung in June; Oh, my luve is like the melodie That is sweetly played in tune. (Robert Burns)
• But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. (Robert Burns) [love/love/love]
• The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy. (Robert Burns) [men/misfortune/pain/joy]
• Dare to be honest and fear no labor. (Robert Burns) [fear]
• Man s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn. (Robert Burns)
• 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. (Robert Burns) [character/wish]
• Suspense is worse than disappointment. (Robert Burns) [hope-disappointment]
• 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) [help]
• Prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom s root. (Robert Burns) [prudent/wisdom]
• When chill November s surly blast make fields and forest bare. (Robert Burns)
• There was three Kings into the east, / Three kings both great and high, / And they hae sworn a solemn oath / John Barleycorn should die. (Robert Burns) [high]
• Blame where you must, be candid where you can, and be each critic the good-natured man. (Robert Burns)
• O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. (Robert Burns) [life/art]
• To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That s the true pathos and sublime Of human life. (Robert Burns) [wife/human/life]
• Look abroad through Nature s range, Nature s mighty law is change. (Robert Burns) [look/nature/nature/right]
• 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. (Robert Burns) [character/wish]
• Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. (Robert Burns) [fame]
• There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. (Robert Burns) [thing]
• Dare to be honest and fear no labor. (Robert Burns) [fear]
• Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. (Robert Burns)
• The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God. (Robert Burns) [god]
• 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) [help]
• Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. (Robert Burns) [heavy//more]
• I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. (Robert Burns) [store/mind]

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