What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. Robert Burns More Quotes by Robert Burns More Quotes From Robert Burns But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted Robert Burns and-love broken forever I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight. Robert Burns opposites night sex Mankind is a science that defies definitions. Robert Burns mankind definitions The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies. Robert Burns voice messages sky If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this. Robert Burns bliss life world My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! Robert Burns sweet country son Once upon a Lammas Night Robert Burns moon summer night Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min? Robert Burns funny-new-years-eve should friendship God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be. Robert Burns god-knows should knows How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. Robert Burns favors powerful persons The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Robert Burns best-laid-plans planning men The best laid plans take 40 years to complete. Robert Burns best-laid-plans plans years Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne. Robert Burns new-year mind kindness 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 offensive struggle mind Anticipation forward points the view. Robert Burns anticipation views God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel. Robert Burns teaching teacher father Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, Robert Burns fetch silver wine O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. Robert Burns embarrassment blunders foolish To see her is to love her, Robert Burns nature love life And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright. Robert Burns temptation mind night
