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

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.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing

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 --...

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

Suspense is worst than disappointment

Suspense is worst than disappointment

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 worse than disappointment

Suspense is worse than disappointment

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

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

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

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...