Burns

Famous quotes containing the word burns:

    The best laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft agley;
    An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    See Social-life and Glee sit down,
    All joyous and unthinking,
    Till, quite transmugrified, they’re grown
    Debauchery and Drinking:
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    O whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad;
    O whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad:
    Tho’ father and mither and a’ should gae mad,
    O whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad.
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)