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
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. – Robert Burns
When chill Novembers surly blast make fields and forest bare. – Robert Burns
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With good intentions, hell proverbially is paved. – William James