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

Quote by Robert Burns

Topics: Quotations Quotes

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met --...

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met --...

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my...

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my...

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

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

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

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

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have...

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have...

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

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

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

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

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

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Some have meat, and cannot eat, And some cannot eat that want it; But we...

Some have meat, and cannot eat, And some cannot eat that want it; But we...

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches...

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches...

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

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

Suspense is worst than disappointment

Suspense is worst than disappointment

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

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

Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has...

Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has...

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has...

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has...

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he...

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he...