Quotes By Robert Frost

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

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

The only certain freedom's in departure.

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

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.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

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

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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

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