Robert Burns Quotes on Truth
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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, 'An honest man's the noblest work of God.'
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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
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The social, friendly, honest man, Whate'er he be, 'Tis he fulfills great Nature's plan, And none but he!
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I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he mauna fa' that.
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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.