best Burns Quotes?: I'm doing Research for Burns' Night!

[Jimmy]

I find that there are so many magical lines from Burns in so many of his poems.
I never tire from reading his poetry and understanding what he is saying.
Tam O'Shannter is full of great lines all the way through it.
The great lines in To a Mouse and the fabulously philosphical last verse of To a Louse, his love poems - how many quotes can we take from them.
Just to read his poetry at random, flicking through a book of his poems and reading some verse, something always jumps out of you.
There is material in his poems for a million years

[KD Burke]

My thanks to you both!

You'r right about Tam O' Shanter having memorable lines. The loving words of Tam's wife got a good response:

"She told thee weel thou was a skellum;
a blethering, blustering, drunken blellum
That frae November to October
any market day thou was not sober."

"That ilka melder wi' the miller
thou would sit as long as thou had siller
and any naig was ca'd a shoe on,
the smith and thee got roaring fou on!"

"That in the Lord's house e'en on Sunday
thou would drink wi' Kirkton Jean until Monday!"

"She prophesied that late or soon
thou'd be found deep drowned in Doon,
or catched wi' warlocks in the mirk
by Alloway's auld haunted kirk."


(Mis)quoted from memory, so don't beat me up too badly!