My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
- Robert Burns
More Quotes By Robert Burns
- It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s...
- To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,
That’s the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.
- A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
- Oh would some power the gift give us,
to see ourselves as others see us!
- While Europe’s eye is fix’d on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While...
- My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing...
- Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
- Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire,
That’s a’ the learning I desire.
- There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
- The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
- Life is but a day at most.
- The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
- The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain,...
- Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
- But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall...
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