Robert Burns Quotes As A Pioneer of Romance

“A woman can make an average man great, and a great man average.” — Robert Burns

“Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!” — Robert Burns

“How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.” — Robert Burns

“The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.” — Robert Burns

“Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!” — 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

“Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!” — Robert Burns

“Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how many counsels sweet, How many lengthened, sage advice, The husband frae the wife despises.” — Robert Burns

“And there begins a Lang digression about the lords o’ the creation.” — Robert Burns

“The best-laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.” — 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

“Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry… Friendship… had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me God of love only knows where.” — Robert Burns

“The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.” — Robert Burns

“But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.” ― Robert Burns

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.” ― Robert Burns

“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.” ― Robert Burns

“My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.” ― Robert Burns

“Some books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn’d…” ― Robert Burns

“Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us.” ― Robert Burns

“Wee, sleek it, cowrie, Tim’Ross beastie, O what a panic’s in thy breastie! ” ― Robert Burns

“Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.” ― Robert Burns

“Oh the gift that God could give us, to see ourselves as others see us.” ― Robert Burns

“Dare to be honest and fear no labour.” ― Robert Burns

“If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.” ― Robert Burns

“Till a’ the seas’ gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun.” ― Robert Burns

“Painters and poets have the liberty to lie.” ― Robert Burns

“I will love thee still, my dear, while the sands o’ life shall run.” ― Robert Burns

“Fain would I hide, what I fear to discover, Yet long, long too well have I known, All that has caused this wreck in my bosom, Is Jenny, fair Jenny alone.” ― Robert Burns

“My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.” ― Robert Burns

“Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.” ― Robert Burns

“In simmer, when the hay was mawn, And corn wav’d green in ilka field, While claver blooms white o’er the lea, And roses blaw in ilka beild!” ― Robert Burns

“The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.” ― Robert Burns

“Thee, sweet maid, hae I offended, My offence is loving thee.” ― Robert Burns

“My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.” ― Robert Burns

“Time cannot aid me, my griefs are immortal, Not Hope dare a comfort bestow.” ― Robert Burns

“Falsest of womankind, can’st thou declare, All thy fond, plighted vows fleeting as air!” ― Robert Burns

“And man, whose head’s-erected face, The smiles of love adorn, Man’s inhumanity to man, makes countless thousands mourn!” ― Robert Burns

“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

“My love is like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June, My love is like the melody, That’s sweetly played in tune.” ― Robert Burns

“The fear o’ hell ‘s a hangman’s whip, To haud the wretch in order, But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.” ― Robert Burns

“I pick my favorite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.” ― Robert Burns

“Lord, we thank, and thee adore, For temporal gifts we little merit.” ― Robert Burns

“God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.” ― Robert Burns

“But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.” ― Robert Burns

“Some have meat and canny eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we have meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.” ― Robert Burns