Robert Burns Quotes

"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Dying, Opera)

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Uncertainty)

"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Friend, World)

"The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Violets)

"Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Fame)

"Suspense is worse than disappointment."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Disappointment, Suspense)

"And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Creation)

"Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!"
- Robert Burns
(Related: Man)

"Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!"
- Robert Burns

"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Existence, Mind, Quotations, Struggle)

"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Gentleman)

"Dare to be honest and fear no labor."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Fear, Labor)

"Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Suspicion, Weight)

"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"
- Robert Burns
(Related: Brother, Affliction, Brothers, Sons)