Famous quotes containing the words auld and/or alliance:
“For auld lang syne, by dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)