Robert Burns quotes - page 2

Nae man can tether time or tide. (Robert Burns)
T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Robert Burns
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
Robert Burns
Some books are lies frae end to end.
Robert Burns
It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour.
Robert Burns
An' there began a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.
Robert Burns
Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O: Her prentice han' she tried on man, An' then she made the lasses, O.
Robert Burns
I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!
Robert Burns
The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
Robert Burns
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. (Robert Burns)
But pleasures are like poppies spread- You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river- A moment white-then melts forever.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Robert Burns
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife,- That is the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
Robert Burns
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
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!
Robert Burns
The voice of Nature loudly cries, And many a message from the skies, That something in us never dies.
Robert Burns
God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
Robert Burns
I'm truly sorry man's dominion Has broken Nature's social union.
Robert Burns
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.
Robert Burns
When Nature her great masterpiece designed, And framed her last, best work, the human mind, Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan, She formed of various stuff the various Man. (Robert Burns)
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
Robert Burns
What 's done we partly may compute, But know not what 's resisted.
Robert Burns
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. For a' that an a' that.
Robert Burns
Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.
Robert Burns