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: Robert Burns Quotes

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!

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.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

To see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.

To see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.

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 --...

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.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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.

Suspense is worse than disappointment

Suspense is worse than disappointment

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

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

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

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.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is the end of it

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is the end of it

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they...

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they...

He who is passionate and hasty, is generally honest; it is your cool dissembling hypocrite,...

He who is passionate and hasty, is generally honest; it is your cool dissembling hypocrite,...

I have younger friends who dont work, and they arent doing so well. My secret...

I have younger friends who dont work, and they arent doing so well. My secret...