My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

Mankind is a science that defies definitions.