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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
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DAVID D. BURNS Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a per...
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GEORGE BURNS Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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PAT BURNS I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
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PETE BURNS His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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It wad frae monie a b...
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GEORGE BURNS Be quick to learn and wise to know.
GEORGE BURNS Life's but a day at most.
GEORGE BURNS Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
GEORGE BURNS Let us do or die.
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GEORGE BURNS Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
ROBERT BURNS It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
GEORGE BURNS You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
GEORGE BURNS How can I die? I'm booked.
GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
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GEORGE BURNS Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNS Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
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GEORGE BURNS Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNS When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
ROBERT BURNS Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we ha...
ROBERT BURNS I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE BURNS Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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H.S.M. BURNS The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men
Gang aft agley.
ROBERT BURNS Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
ROBERT BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNS If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.
GEORGE BURNS The Thames is liquid history.
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ROBERT BURNS How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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ROBERT BURNS There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNS Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised th...
ROBERT BURNS Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
A farewell, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll ...
ROBERT BURNS The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbea...
ROBERT BURNS His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
ROBERT BURNS The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
ROBERT BURNS Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's plou...
ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru...
ROBERT BURNS Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
ROBERT BURNS And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
ROBERT BURNS Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.
ROBERT BURNS I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care fo...
ROBERT BURNS To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.
ROBERT BURNS Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
FRANK BURNS I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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KEN BURNS All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
ROBERT BURNS And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.
ROBERT BURNS O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
ROBERT BURNS The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
ROBERT BURNS Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
ROBERT BURNS I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, ...
ROBERT BURNS I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, am...
ROBERT BURNS Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poem The Cotter’s Saturday Ni...
ROBERT BURNS Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blu...
ROBERT BURNS What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature...
ROBERT BURNS G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I...
ROBERT BURNS Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The burstin...
ROBERT BURNS Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole ...
ROBERT BURNS O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent; Long may thy h...
ROBERT BURNS But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the sn...
ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee; But I'll remember thee, G...
ROBERT BURNS O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blund...
ROBERT BURNS My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons o...
ROBERT BURNS Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo.
ROBERT BURNS Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
ROBERT BURNS The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
ROBERT BURNS Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae; The hawthorn's budding in the gle...
ROBERT BURNS Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see! Ye woodbines, hanging...
ROBERT BURNS The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
ROBERT BURNS A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his ...
ROBERT BURNS A man's a man for a' that!
ROBERT BURNS Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a' kennin'...
ROBERT BURNS Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNS Suspense is worse than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNS Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'! Now meekly calm, now wild in...
ROBERT BURNS There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy.
ROBERT BURNS The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your hono...
ROBERT BURNS Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
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