Quotes By Robert Frost

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

I always entertain great hopes.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

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

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

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

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