Robert Burns Quotes

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

Character, Wish, Resolve

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

Makes, Thousands, Mourn

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

Dying, Guy, Opera

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Robert Burns

Fear, Honest, Labor

Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Robert Burns

Worse, Suspense

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

Weight, Heavy, Suspicion

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

Mind, Struggle, Ready

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

Friend, Before, Wide

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

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

Creation, Begins, Lords

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

Wet, Adorn, Bathe

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

Brother, Bliss, Brothers

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

Fame, Critics, Paths

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

Him, Gentleman, Scholar

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

Lose, Characters, Decorum

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Poet

Born: January 25, 1759

Died: July 21, 1796

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