Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.