Burns, Robert quotes
1759-1796 Scottish PoetFirmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Burns, Robert
Determination
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert
Critics and Criticism
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Burns, Robert
Certainty
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Burns, Robert
Honesty
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.
Burns, Robert
Heartbreak
Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
Burns, Robert
Grace
The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
Burns, Robert
Kindness
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.
Burns, Robert
Laughter
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
Burns, Robert
Suspicion
I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Burns, Robert
Quotations
When chill November s surly blast make fields and forest bare.
Burns, Robert
Seasons
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
Burns, Robert
Silence
Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom s root.
Burns, Robert
Self-control
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
Burns, Robert
Favors
Let us do or die.
Burns, Robert
Action
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
Burns, Robert
Anxiety