Allan Ramsay (poet)

Allan Ramsay (15 October 1686 – 7 January 1758) was a Scottish poet (or makar), playwright, publisher, librarian and impresario of early Enlightenment Edinburgh.

A 1722 portrait of Allan Ramsay by William Aikman.

Quotes

A Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words (1914)

W. Guerney Benham, A Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words (1914), p. 262

• Let fowk bode weel, and strive to do their best;
  Nae mair's required—let Heaven make out the rest.
  • The Gentle Shepherd. Act 1, 2.

• A bleezing ingle, and a clean hearthstane.
  • The Gentle Shepherd. Act 1, 2.

• A dish of married love right soon grows cauld.
  • The Gentle Shepherd. Act 1, 2.

• You have sae saft a voice and slid a tongue,
  You are the darling of baith auld and young.
  • Eclogue.

• For when I dinna clearly see,
  I always own I dinna ken,
  And that's the way with wisest men.
  • Eclogue.