Robert Burns: Trending quotes (page 6)

“T is sweeter for thee despairing
Than aught in the world beside,—Jessy!”

“It was a' for our rightfu' King
We left fair Scotland's strand.”

“Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.”

“If there's another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.”

“Here lies Boghead amang the dead
In hopes to get salvation;
But if such as he in Heav'n may be,
Then welcome, hail! damnation. ”

“Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!”

“Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min?'
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' auld lang syne?”

“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us
An' ev'n Devotion”

“To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!”

“Ah, Tam! Ah! Tam! Thou'll get thy fairin!
In hell they'll roast you like a herrin!”

“Some books are lies frae end to end.”

“Ye're aiblins nae temptation.”

“O, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June.”