There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Quote by Robert Burns

Topics: Robert Burns Quotes

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.

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.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

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

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

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...

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive...

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive...

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...

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive...

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing

Suspense is worse than disappointment

Suspense is worse 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...

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

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

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint...

Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint...