Robert Burns Famous Quotes
"Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me."
The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley.
"The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid featureYet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended."
"Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change."
"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy"
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns Quotations
"Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time."
Sam Rayburn
"Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone."
Rodney Dangerfield
"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
Dorothy Thompson
...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Matthew Arnold
"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off"
Andrew Schneider
"To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful."
Sallust
We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
George Herbert Walker Bush
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
Cicero
"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."
Mortimer Adler