Robert Burns

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

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose! <br />

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

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

I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess.

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

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

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

Let us do or die.

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, 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.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

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

Look abroad through Nature s range, Nature s mighty law is change.

To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

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

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, and be each critic the good-natured man.

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

When chill November s surly blast make fields and forest bare.

Prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom s root.

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.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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.

Man s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

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

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

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.