Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
Robert Burns
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
Robert Burns
I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns
When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
Robert Burns
Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
Robert Burns
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
Robert Burns
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
Robert Burns
The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
Robert Burns
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Robert Burns
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns
Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
Robert Burns
Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.
Robert Burns
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.