Robert Frost Quotes
An American poet; winner of four Pulitzer Prizes.
(1874 - 1963)
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
[Age]
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
[Politicians]
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
[Poetry]
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
[Poetry]
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
[Thinking]
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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.
[Acceptance]
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.
[Adversity]
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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
[Ideas]
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
[Human Relations]
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
[Being]
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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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