1. “God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.” – Robert Burns
2. “Suspense is worst than disappointment.” – Robert Burns
3. “Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.” – Robert Burns
4. “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
5. “Some books are lies frae end to end.” – Robert Burns
6. “Gars auld claes look amaist as weel’s the new.” – Robert Burns
7. “Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!” – Robert Burns
8. “The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain’d his name!” – Robert Burns
9. “I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.” – Robert Burns
10. “The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.” – Robert Burns
11. “But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.” – Robert Burns
12. “It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.” – Robert Burns
13. “All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.” – Robert Burns
14. “A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it’s innocence and modesty That polishes the dart.” – Robert Burns
15. “Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!” – Robert Burns
16. “My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.” – Robert Burns
17. “They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!” – Robert Burns
18. “Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green!” – Robert Burns
19. “An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.” – Robert Burns
20. “The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.” – Robert Burns
21. “Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!” – Robert Burns
22. “I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.” – Robert Burns
23. “The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.” – Robert Burns
24. “Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I’ll sing thee a song in thy praise.” – Robert Burns
25. “Anticipation forward points the view.” – Robert Burns
26. “All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath’d with nodding corn.” – Robert Burns
27. “Oh the gift that God could give us, to see ourselves as others see us.” – Robert Burns
28. “Mankind is a science that defies definitions.” – Robert Burns
29. “But pleasure are like poppies spread, you sieze the flower, its bloom is spread” – Robert Burns
30. “Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o’ thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an’ trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!” – Robert Burns
31. “When chill November’s surly blast make fields and forest bare.” – Robert Burns
32. “Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?” – Robert Burns
33. “To step aside is human.” – Robert Burns
34. “My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.” – Robert Burns
35. “When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.” – Robert Burns
36. “Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.” – Robert Burns
37. “’T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!” – Robert Burns
38. “Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.” – Robert Burns
39. “Some wee short hour ayont the twal.” – Robert Burns
40. “Even thou who mournst the daisy’s fate, That fate is thine–no distant date; Stern Ruin’s ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow’s weight Shall be thy doom!” – Robert Burns
41. “Dare to be honest and fear no labor.” – Robert Burns
42. “Let them cant about decorum, who have characters to lose!” – Robert Burns
43. “Man is a soldier and life must be fought.” – Robert Burns
44. “I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.” – Robert Burns
45. “Painters and poets have liberty to lie.” – Robert Burns
46. “The best laid schemes of mice and men often go astray” – Robert Burns
47. “I’ll be merry and free, I’ll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I’ll care for nae-body.” – Robert Burns
48. “Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!” – Robert Burns
49. “Now’s the day and now’s the hour.” – Robert Burns
50. “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” – Robert Burns
51. “Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.” – Robert Burns
52. “A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.” – Robert Burns
53. “Nae man can tether time or tide.” – Robert Burns
54. “Should the poor be flattered? – Shakespeare.” – Robert Burns
55. “A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.” – Robert Burns
56. “Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he’s a problem must puzzle the devil.” – Robert Burns
57. “Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.” – Robert Burns
58. “By Oppression’s woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die!” – Robert Burns
59. “Life is but a day at most.” – Robert Burns
60. “Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die.” – Robert Burns
61. “But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! Still you are blest, compared with me!” – Robert Burns
62. “Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!” – Robert Burns
63. “A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a’ that; But an honest man’s aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa’ that.” – Robert Burns
64. “What’s done we partly may compute, But know not what’s resisted.” – Robert Burns
65. “Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!” – Robert Burns
66. “Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.” – Robert Burns
67. “My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.” – Robert Burns
68. “Even tho who mournst the daisies fate, that fate is thine.” – Robert Burns
69. “And let us mind, faint heart ne’er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.” – Robert Burns
70. “Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.” – Robert Burns
71. “Suspicion is a heavy armour and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.” – Robert Burns
72. “Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.” – Robert Burns
73. “There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.” – Robert Burns
74. “And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.” – Robert Burns
75. “Here’s to us. Who’s like us? Damn few, and they’re all dead.” – Robert Burns
76. “Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o’er the crystal streamlet plays.” – Robert Burns
77. “Love’s first snow-drop, virgin kiss.” – Robert Burns
78. “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
79. “Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.” – Robert Burns
80. “Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.” – Robert Burns
81. “Great for good, or great for evil.” – Robert Burns
82. “To make three guineas do the work of five.” – Robert Burns
83. “Now a’ is done that men can do, And a’ is done in vain.” – Robert Burns