| Quotes |
Topic |
| Action | What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. |
| Action | Let us do or die. |
| Advice | And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser. |
| Advice | Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how mony consels sweet, How mony lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises. |
| Affliction | Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! |
| Anger | Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. |
| Apparel | Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new. |
| Apparel | His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. |
| Appearance | O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion! |
| Argument | And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation. |
| Autumn | All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. |
| Behavior | The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. |
| Certainty | There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. |
| Comparisons | To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd. |
| Content | Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair. |
| Content | I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body. |
| Cowslips | And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. |
| Cowslips | Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear. |
| Cruelty | Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! |
| Cruelty | It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. |
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