Burns may refer to:
- Burn, an injury (plural)
- Robert Burns, poet
- Burns (surname), includes list of people and characters
- Burns London, a British guitar maker
Places:
- Burns, Colorado, unincorporated community in Eagle County
- Burns, Kansas, town in Marion County
- Burns, New York, town in Allegany County
- Burns, Oregon, town in Harney County
- Burns, Tennessee, town in Dickson County
- Burns, Wisconsin, town in La Crosse County
- Burns (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Burns, Wyoming, town in Laramie County
Ships:
- USS Burns (DD-171), a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1919 to 1930
- USS Burns (DD-588), a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1943 to 1946
- USS W. W. Burns (1861), a schooner acquired by the United States Navy in 1861
Buildings:
- H.B. Burns Memorial Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Famous quotes containing the word burns:
“Think, when your castigated pulse
Gies now and then a wallop,
What ragings must his veins convulse,
That still eternal gallop:”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“Unmeasured power, incredible passion, enormous craft: no thought
apparent but burns darkly
Smothered with its own smoke in the human brain-vault: no thought
outside; a certain measure in phenomena:
The fountains of the boiling stars, the flowers on the foreland, the
ever-returning roses of dawn.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“Before I get through with you, you will have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife. Now, the first thing to do is arrange for a settlement. You take the children, your husband takes the house, Junior burns down the house, you take the insurance and I take you!”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Monkey Business, terms for a divorce settlement proposed while trying to woo Lucille Briggs (Thelma Todd)