Burns

Famous quotes containing the word burns:

    See Social-life and Glee sit down,
    All joyous and unthinking,
    Till, quite transmugrified, they’re grown
    Debauchery and Drinking:
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
    —George Burns (b. 1896)

    The social, friendly, honest man, Whate’er he be,
    ‘Tis he fulfils great Nature’s plan, And none but he.
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)