Inspirational Quotes by Robert Burns

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

— Robert Burns

Some books are lies frae end to end.

— Robert Burns

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

— Robert Burns

Life is but a day at most.

— Robert Burns

Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.

— Robert Burns

Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.

— Robert Burns

And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.

— Robert Burns

Now's the day and now's the hour.

— Robert Burns

But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

— Robert Burns

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

— Robert Burns

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.

— Robert Burns

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

— Robert Burns

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

— Robert Burns

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

— Robert Burns

Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays; Come let us spend the lightsome days In the birks…

— Robert Burns

“And man, whose heav'n-erected face The smiles of love adorn Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!”

— Robert Burns

Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.

— Robert Burns

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

— Robert Burns

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

— Robert Burns

Nae man can tether time or tide.

— Robert Burns

A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.

— Robert Burns

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

— Robert Burns

'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

— Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

— Robert Burns

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

— Robert Burns

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.

— Robert Burns