Robert Frost quotes

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

The best way out is always through.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

I always entertain great hopes.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

The artist in me cries out for design.

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.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

I always entertain great hopes.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.