But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never p….

Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?.

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at time….

Painters and poets have liberty to lie..

Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his ev….

The best plans of men and mice often go awry..

Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!.

A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him..

Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of ….

Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale..

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit..

Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises..

Some wee short hour ayont the twal..

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it..

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

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!.

If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breat….

The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God..

From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "A….

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union..

Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us.