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Quotes from Posthumous Pieces — Robert Burns

1759–1796 Scotland

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

Posthumous Pieces (1799)

Life is all a variorum,
We regard not how it goes;
Let them cant about decorum,
Who have characters to lose.

Posthumous Pieces (1799)

I once was a maid, tho' I cannot tell when,
And still my delight is in proper young men.

Posthumous Pieces (1799)

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be.

Posthumous Pieces (1799)

Partly wi' love o'ercome sae sair,
And partly she was drunk.

Posthumous Pieces (1799)

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

Posthumous Pieces (1799)

For a' that, and a' that
An' twice as muckle 's a' that,
I've lost but ane, I've twa behin',
I've wife eneugh for a' that.

Posthumous Pieces (1799)

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.

Posthumous Pieces (1799)

A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast!
Courts for cowards were erected,
Churches built to please the priest.

Posthumous Pieces (1799)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Burns (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.