110+ Robert Burns Quotes On Friendship, Family And Death

Robert Burns was a Scottish poet, widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. He is best known for writing and collecting folk songs, as well as writing poems and songs in the Scots language. His most famous works include "Auld Lang Syne", "A Red, Red Rose", and "To a Mouse". Following is our collection on famous quotes by Robert Burns on friendship, family, death.

Top 10 Robert Burns Quotes

1. My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
2. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
3. The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
4. There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
5. The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
6. Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
7. Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
8. Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
9. Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
10. Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

Robert Burns Image Quotes

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. — Robert Burns

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto! — Robert Burns

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

A women can make an average man great, and a great man average. — Robert Burns

Robert Burns Short Quotes

• Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.
• A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
• If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
• Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
• Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie.
• Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
• The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
• His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
• Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
• Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!

Robert Burns Quotes About Love

I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating. — Robert Burns

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted — Robert Burns

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! — Robert Burns

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. — Robert Burns

Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune. — Robert Burns

O, my luve is like a red, red rose. — Robert Burns

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent — Robert Burns

Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss. — Robert Burns

The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O. — Robert Burns

To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither! — Robert Burns

Robert Burns Quotes About Nature

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union. — Robert Burns

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither. — Robert Burns

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change. — Robert Burns

Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best! — Robert Burns

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea. — Robert Burns

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. — Robert Burns

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning. — Robert Burns

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man. — Robert Burns

Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews. — Robert Burns

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies. — Robert Burns

Robert Burns Quotes About Kindness

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God. — 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

Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne. — Robert Burns

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. — Robert Burns

But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God. — Robert Burns

The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God. — Robert Burns

Robert Burns Famous Quotes And Sayings

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention. — Robert Burns

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. — Robert Burns

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto! — Robert Burns

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

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life. — Robert Burns

The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. — Robert Burns

I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight. — 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

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

And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright. — Robert Burns

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

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. — Robert Burns

It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue. — Robert Burns

She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine. — Robert Burns

Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom! — Robert Burns

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. — Robert Burns

Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An' raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun. — Robert Burns

Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks. — Robert Burns

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. — Robert Burns

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy! — Robert Burns

Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. — Robert Burns

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

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. — Robert Burns

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime. — Robert Burns

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

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

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns

Suspense is worse than disappointment. — Robert Burns

God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen. — Robert Burns

What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. — Robert Burns

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom. — Robert Burns

Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil! — Robert Burns

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

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation. — Robert Burns

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. — Robert Burns

Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry? — Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice! — Robert Burns

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour. — Robert Burns

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play. — Robert Burns

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. — Robert Burns

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art. — Robert Burns

See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking — Robert Burns

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee. — Robert Burns

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. — Robert Burns

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane. — Robert Burns

At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. — Robert Burns

Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse? — Robert Burns

To make three guineas do the work of five. — Robert Burns

Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises. — Robert Burns

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

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

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

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

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 — Robert Burns

Great for good, or great for evil. — Robert Burns

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that. — Robert Burns

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy. — Robert Burns

The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. — Robert Burns

Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale. — Robert Burns

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border. — Robert Burns

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. — Robert Burns

By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die! — Robert Burns

Suspense is worst than disappointment. — Robert Burns

Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity. — Robert Burns

Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in. — Robert Burns

Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me. — Robert Burns

Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. — Robert Burns

The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. — Robert Burns

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect. — Robert Burns

Life Lessons by Robert Burns

1. Robert Burns teaches us to appreciate the beauty of nature and the importance of friendship. He encourages us to be resilient in the face of adversity and to strive for a life of joy and contentment. He also reminds us to be generous and kind to those around us, and to take the time to enjoy the simple pleasures of life.