Zitat des Tages von Robert Burns:
Suspense is worse than disappointment.
There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.
There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.
And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
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.
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.
