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:
“O pale, pale now, those rosy lips,
I aft hae kissed sae fondly;
And closed for ay, the sparkling glance
That dwalt on me sae kindly;
And moldering now in silent dust
That heart that lo’ed me dearly!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“Argument is conclusive ... but ... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.... For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns ... his hearer’s mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it ... that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.”
—Roger Bacon (c. 1214–1294)
“It is because everything is relative
That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and
Entertainment much more than groping shadows of an incomplete
Former existence so close it burns like the mouth that
Closes down over all your effort like the moment
Of death”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)