A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
- Robert Frost Quote
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost Quote
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost Quote
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
- Robert Frost Quote
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
- Robert Frost Quote
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
- Robert Frost Quote
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
- Robert Frost Quote
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
- Robert Frost Quote
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
- Robert Frost Quote
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.
- Robert Frost Quote
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
- Robert Frost Quote
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
- Robert Frost Quote
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
- Robert Frost Quote
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
- Robert Frost Quote
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
- Robert Frost Quote
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
- Robert Frost Quote
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost Quote
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
- Robert Frost Quote
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
- Robert Frost Quote
Freedom lies in being bold.
- Robert Frost Quote
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.
- Robert Frost Quote
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost Quote
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Quote
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
- Robert Frost Quote
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
- Robert Frost Quote
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
- Robert Frost Quote
I always entertain great hopes.
- Robert Frost Quote
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
- Robert Frost Quote
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
- Robert Frost Quote
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
- Robert Frost Quote
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.
- Robert Frost Quote
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
- Robert Frost Quote
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
- Robert Frost Quote
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
- Robert Frost Quote
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
- Robert Frost Quote
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
- Robert Frost Quote
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
- Robert Frost Quote
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
- Robert Frost Quote
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
- Robert Frost Quote
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
- Robert Frost Quote
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
- Robert Frost Quote
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
- Robert Frost Quote
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
- Robert Frost Quote
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
- Robert Frost Quote
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
- Robert Frost Quote
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
- Robert Frost Quote
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
- Robert Frost Quote
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
- Robert Frost Quote
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
- Robert Frost Quote
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
- Robert Frost Quote
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
- Robert Frost Quote
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
- Robert Frost Quote
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
- Robert Frost Quote
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
- Robert Frost Quote
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
- Robert Frost Quote
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
- Robert Frost Quote
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.
- Robert Frost Quote
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
- Robert Frost Quote
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
- Robert Frost Quote
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.
- Robert Frost Quote
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.
- Robert Frost Quote
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost Quote
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
- Robert Frost Quote
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Robert Frost Quote
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.
- Robert Frost Quote
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
- Robert Frost Quote
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
- Robert Frost Quote
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.
- Robert Frost Quote
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
- Robert Frost Quote
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost Quote
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
- Robert Frost Quote
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost Quote
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
- Robert Frost Quote
What we live by we die by.
- Robert Frost Quote
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
- Robert Frost Quote
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
- Robert Frost Quote
You can't get too much winter in the winter.
- Robert Frost Quote
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
- Robert Frost Quote
