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• But, oh! fell death's untimely frost That nipt my flower sae early.
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Highland Mary...
• Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry
  Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!...
• Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais)
  "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy....
• If naebody care for me, I 'll care for naebody.
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- I hae a Wife o' my Ai...
• Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lie
  And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eye...
• Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Tam o' Shante...
• She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- My Wife 's a Winsome Wee Thing...
• O welcome, pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 213...
• In my end is my beginning. -- Mary Stuart, Queen of Sco