Famous Quotes

Quotes by Robert Frost

• A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
• A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
• A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
• A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
• A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
• Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
• Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
• By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
• Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
• Freedom lies in being bold.
• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
• Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
• Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
• I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
• I always entertain great hopes.
• I go to school the youth to learn the future.
• I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
• I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
• I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
• If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
• If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
• It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
• Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
• Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
• Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
• Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
• Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
• Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.