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Robert Burns
Quotes by Robert Burns
Quotes by 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
“Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.”
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
“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”
Robert Burns
