Famous Robert Burns Quotations

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"The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God."
by Robert Burns
"Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!"
by Robert Burns
"Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep 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 himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me."
by Robert Burns
"I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission."
by Robert Burns
"If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this."
by Robert Burns
"Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change."
by 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.)"
by Robert Burns
"O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us."
by Robert Burns
"Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us"
by 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"
by Robert Burns
"The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley."
by Robert Burns
"The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid featureYet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended."
by Robert Burns
"Let us do or die."
by Robert Burns
"But man to whom alone is given/ A ray direct from pitying /Heaven Glories in his heart humane /And creatures for his pleasure slain."
by Robert Burns
"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."
by Robert Burns
"Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root."
by Robert Burns
"Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame."
by Robert Burns
"Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects."
by Robert Burns
"Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces."
by Robert Burns
"The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men Gang aft agley."
by 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."
by 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."
by Robert Burns
"Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted."
by Robert Burns
"When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare."
by Robert Burns
"Of a' the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west, For there the bonnie lassie lives, The lassie I lo'e best;"
by Robert Burns
"O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, I aft hae kissed sae fondly;..."
by Robert Burns
"See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking,..."
by Robert Burns
"Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,—..."
by Robert Burns
"The soger frae the wars returns, The sailor frae the main,..."
by Robert Burns
"There's nought but care on ev'ry han', In ev'ry hour that passes, O:..."
by Robert Burns


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