Robert Burns Quotes, Foolish Quotes, Embarrassment Quotes

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

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Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.

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A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! . . . Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.

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The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.

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The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.

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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

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Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

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I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.

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Anticipation forward points the view.

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Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

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Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

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The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!

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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!

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Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

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John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

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It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.

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