Quotes By Robert Frost

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

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

The only certain freedom's in departure.

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

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 worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.