318 Quotes by Robert Burns

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.