Robert Burns: Quotes
- Animals
Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie! - Cruelty
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn! - Love
O my luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune. - Plans
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft a-gley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain
For promis'd joy. - Pleasure and Indulgence
But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed. - Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!