318 Quotes by Robert Burns

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there's another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.