Robert Burns Quotes (223 Quotes)



    Thou Graybeard, old Wisdom, mayst boast of thy treasures Give me with young Folly to live I grant thee thy calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures But Folly has raptures to give.

    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.

    It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

    From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man 's the noblest work of God.'


    In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

    I believe Kitson has brought us a plan that is the best we can expect in the real world.

    By the treasure of my soul,
    That's the love I bear thee:
    I swear and vow that only thou
    Shall ever be my Dearie!

    Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
    Heaven's beauties on my fancy shine;
    I see the Sire of Love on high,
    And own His work indeed divine!

    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.



    Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

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

    Stop thief, Dame Nature cried to Death As Willy drew his latest breath, How shall I make a fool again My choicest model thou hast ta'en


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

    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.

    Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
    And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
    I will luve thee still, my dear,
    While the sands o' life shall run.

    Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

    Tho' mountains, rise, and deserts howl,
    And oceans roar between;
    Yet, dearer than my deathless soul,
    I still would love my Jean.

    To see her is to love her, And love but her forever For Nature made her what she is, And never made anither.

    I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing But, och it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling.

    At slaps the billies halt a blink,
    Till lasses strip their shoon:
    Wi' faith an' hope, an' love an' drink,
    They're a' in famous tune
    For crack that day.

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

    A Highland lad my love was born,
    The Lalland laws he held in scorn;
    But he still was faithfu' to his clan,
    My gallant, braw John Highlandman.



    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.

    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.

    Know prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.


    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.

    A fig for those by law protected Liberty's a glorious feast Courts for cowards were erected Churches built to please the priest.

    He wales a portion with judicious care And 'Let us worship God,' he says with solemn air.

    Ah, Chloris, since it may not be,
    That thou of love wilt hear;
    If from the lover thou maun flee,
    Yet let the friend be dear.

    Gin a body meet a body Coming through the rye Gin a body kiss a body, Need a body cry.

    And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

    Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu' o' care.

    Tho' I were doom'd to wander on,
    Beyond the sea, beyond the sun,
    Till my last weary sand was run;
    Till then-and then I love thee!

    We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine.


    John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow was brent.

    Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.

    Since, thy gay morn of life o'ercast,
    Chill came the tempest's lour;
    (And ne'er Misfortune's eastern blast
    Did nip a fairer flower.

    Your thought, if Love must harbour there,
    Conceal it in that thought;
    Nor cause me from my bosom tear
    The very friend I sought.

    And thou grim Pow'r by life abhorr'd,
    While life a pleasure can afford,
    Oh!

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


    The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.


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