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

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

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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

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

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