There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. – Robert Burns
Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. – Robert Burns
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto! – Robert Burns
Suspense is worst than disappointment. – Robert Burns
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. – Robert Burns
Had we never lovd sae kindly, Had we never lovd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted — we had never been broken-hearted. – Robert Burns
When chill Novembers surly blast make fields and forest bare. – Robert Burns
The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God. – Robert Burns
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. – Robert Burns
I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. – Robert Burns
The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And evn the rigid feature: Yet neer with wits profane to range Be complaisance extended;An atheist laughs a poor exchange For deity offended. – Robert Burns
The best-laid schemes o mice an men Gang aft agley. – Robert Burns
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration. – Robert Burns
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. – Robert Burns
