Robert Burns quotes

“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”

— Robert Burns

“Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.”

— Robert Burns

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

— Robert Burns

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

— Robert Burns

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

— 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

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

— Robert Burns

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

— Robert Burns

“Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!”

— Robert Burns

“Suspense is worse than disappointment.”

— Robert Burns

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

— 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