Quotes By Robert Frost

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

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

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

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.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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

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 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.

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.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

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

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

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

To be social is to be forgiving.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

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.

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

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

The best way out is always through.

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

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The artist in me cries out for design.