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Quotes by Robert Burns

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
– Robert Burns
Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how mony consels sweet, How mony lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
– Robert Burns
And may you better reck the rede, than ever did th' adviser.
– Robert Burns
And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
– Robert Burns
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
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
– 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
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
– Robert Burns
Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
– Robert Burns
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
– Robert Burns
Nae man can tether time or tide.
– Robert Burns
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
– Robert Burns
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
– Robert Burns
Suspense is worse than disappointment.
– Robert Burns
The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
– Robert Burns
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
– Robert Burns
The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
– Robert Burns
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
– Robert Burns
To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.
– Robert Burns
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
– Robert Burns
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
A farewell, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,
While the star of hope she leaves him?
Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,
Dark despair around benights me.
– Robert Burns
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
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
– Robert Burns
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.
(O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.)
– Robert Burns
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 best laid schemes of Mice and Men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!)
– Robert Burns