Quotes By Robert Burns

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

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

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

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

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.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

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

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

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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

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

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