Robert Burns Quotes

The greater the truth, the greater the libel.

Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

critics

Prudent, cautious self-control
Is wisdom's root.

self-control

The best-laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley.

planning

A mind conscious of integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar,
Shew'd him the gentleman and scholar.

gentleman

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others, this is my criterion of goodness.

happiness Goodness

To see her is to love her, 
And love but her for ever; 
For Nature made her what she is, 
And never made another!

O, my luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June.
O, my luve's like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.

love

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It would frae mony a blunder free us,
And foolish notion.

self-deception

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

quotations struggle