Robert Burns Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.

  Robert Burns

  Life, World, Bliss

  Robert Burns (1822). “The Poems of Robert Burns ...”, p.21

• Life is but a day at most.

  Robert Burns

  Life, Life Is

  Robert Burns, “Written In Friars' Carse Hermitage (Second Version)”

• 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

  Love, Life, Wedding

  'A Red Red Rose' (1796) (derived from various folk-songs)

• 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

  Love, Life, Nature

  'Bonnie Lesley' (1798)

• Now's the day and now's the hour.

  Robert Burns

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  'Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn' (1799) (also known as 'Scots, Wha Hae')

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

  Robert Burns

  Life, Summer, Morning

  Robert Burns, Hamilton PAUL (1819). “The Poems & Songs of Robert Burns, with a Life of the Author ... To which is Subjoined, an Appendix, Consisting of a Panegyrical Ode, and a Demonstration of Burns' Superiority to Every Other Poet as a Writer of Songs, by the Rev. Hamilton Paul”, p.223

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

  Robert Burns

  Life, Home, Wife

  Robert Burns (1852). “The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers”, p.78

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

  Robert Burns

  Life, Men, Wisest Man

  Robert Burns (1860). “Poems & Songs”, p.117

• 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

  Life, Sweet, Angel

  1789 'Highland Mary', stanza 2.

• O Life! thou art a galling load,
  Along a rough, a weary road,
  To wretches such as I!

  Robert Burns

  Life, Art, Speech

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.32

• 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

  Life, Morning, Play

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.18

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

  Robert Burns

  Life, Kings, Victory

  'Tam o' Shanter' (1791) l. 57

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