I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.


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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent; Long may thy h...
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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.
ROBERT BURNS
Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye, She draigl't a' her petticoatie, ...
ROBERT BURNS
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
ROBERT BURNS
Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.
ROBERT BURNS
We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine.
ROBERT BURNS
His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither-- They had been fou for ...
ROBERT BURNS
The fear o’ hell’s a hangman’s whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor ...
ROBERT BURNS
But deep this truth impress'd my mind:
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent a...
ROBERT BURNS
Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of wo...
GEORGE BURNS
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS
I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.
HEATHER BURNS
YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.
BURNIE BURNS
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify t...
KEN BURNS
There is an animated version of 'Lazer Team,' with all the action sequences, that exists. It...
BURNIE BURNS
It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep t...
ROBERT BURNS