Burns

Famous quotes containing the word burns:

“But to see her, was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“I change, and so do women too;
But I reflect—which 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 Grigson’s Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)

“It burns the thing
inside it. And that thing
screams.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)