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

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

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

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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

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

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

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

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
Robert Burns

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


Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Robert Burns

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

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

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

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