Robert Burns...

[fajrdrako]

I'd entirely forgotten this was Robbie Burns' Day until a friend from Texas sent me a card.

Wonder if I can find a kindred spirit to celebrate with...

A few quotes:

• 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.
  
  
• Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
  That's a' the learning I desire.
  
  
• While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
  The fate of empires and the fall of kings;
  While quacks of State must each produce his plan,
  And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
  Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
  The Rights of Woman merit some attention. (1792)
  
  
• God knows, I'm no the thing I should be,
  Nor am I even the thing I could be.
  

I love the phrase "quacks of state".