Burns

Famous quotes containing the word burns:

    “Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow’r,
    Thou’s met me in an evil hour;
    For I maun crush amang the stoure
    Thy slender stem:
    To spare thee now is past my pow’r,
    Thou bonnie gem.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “There’s nought but care on ev’ry han’,
    In ev’ry hour that passes, O:
    What signifies the life o’ man,
    An’ ‘twere na for the lasses, O.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “Let them cant about decorum Who have characters to lose!”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)