Quotes By Robert Frost

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Freedom lies in being bold.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.