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:
“Auld Nature swears, the lovely Dears
Her noblest work she classes, O:
Her prentice han’ she try’d on man,
An’ then she made the lasses, O.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“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)
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
—George Burns (b. 1896)