Like the Holy Bible and English playwright William Shakespeare, several of Robert Burns' poetic insights have passed into the language as 'quotations'. Here's a selection from his poems:
The best laid schemes o’ mice and men
Gang aft a-gley (To A Mouse)
Man’s inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn. (Man was made to Mourn)
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
An honest man ’s the noblest work of God. (The Cotter's Saturday Night)
Oh wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel’s as others see us! (To A Louse)
Now's the day and Now's the hour (Scots Wha Hae)
Inspiring, bold John Barleycorn,
What dangers thou canst make us scorn! (Tam O Shanter)
Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit. (The Selkirk Grace)
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