Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!