But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but gr….

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

Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining..

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty..

I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drow….

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy..

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolbo….

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part o….

John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his w….

Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder..

Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourc….

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire..

What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted..

It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour..

To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!.

Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead..

Now's the day and now's the hour..

The best laid plans take 40 years to complete..

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing..

To make three guineas do the work of five..

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays..