Quote #79
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.
More from Robert Burns
- In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
- If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this.
- God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
- 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.
- Ah, Tam! Ah! Tam! Thou'll get thy fairin! In hell they'll roast you like a herrin!
- 'Weel done, Cutty Sark!'
- Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn, That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie.
- As Tammie glow'red, amazed, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.