Famous quotes containing the word burns:
“O wad some Powr the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
And foolish notion:
What airs in dress an gait wad leae us,
And evn Devotion!”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
“I change, and so do women too;
But I reflectwhich women seldom do.
Tobacco is a filthy weed,
That from the devil doth proceed;
That drains your purse, that burns your clothes,
That makes a chimney of your nose.”
—Anonymous. Written on a Looking Glass, from Geoffrey Grigsons Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)
“But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flowr, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment whitethen melts for ever;”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
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