Famous Robert Quotations

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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
by Robert Frost
"Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"No man is useless while he has a friend."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
by Robert Frost
"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague."
by Robert Burton
"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."
by Robert Frost
"The best way out is always through."
by Robert Frost
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
by Robert Frost
"[Robert Richardson (Carson, Calif.) leaped 11.46m/37-7.25 to win the triple jump M50 age group title.] This is a great competition, ... I visualize each phase, and try to hit the board at the right angle without scratching."
by Robert Richardson
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"A person that knows what he wants is dangerous."
by Robert Miller
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
by Robert Frost
"A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness."
by Robert Cecil
"The deepest thing I have to say in comment to that is that the principle work is to be done within the individual him/herself, and to learn to cope with one's own masculinity and femininity within is an absolute prerequisite before one has the right to talk about exterior relationships."
by Robert Johnson
"The Court finds that the only possible sanction ... is to strike the Defendant's pleadings and enter a default (judgment) for the plaintiffs,"
by Robert Bailey
"The conventional wisdom going into the hearings for (high court nominees Clarence) Thomas and (Robert) Bork was that they were going to get confirmed. One (Thomas) was barely confirmed, and the other was resoundingly defeated."
by Ralph Neas
"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The big issues always remain health care, pensions and things like that."
by Robert Wood
"The industry is undergoing a significant period of consolidation, and we felt that consolidation might hinder our ability to participate in the industry."
by Robert Gray
"The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God."
by Robert Burns
"The intent on doing this was to try to get around the faddish diets. The theme is based on behavior, nutrition and physical activity."
by Robert Eckel
"The new Health Sciences Building will provide a central facility for all pharmacy instruction and research."
by Robert Simmons
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
by Robert Byrne
"The Philippines copyright enforcement is weak and and we are concerned it has the potential of becoming a center of pirate optical media production in Asia given the doubling in the number of production lines for compact discs (CDs) and other optical media during the past year,,"
by Robert Zoellick
"The only certain freedom's in departure."
by Robert Frost
"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"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."
by Robert Frost
"The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The U.N. can bring pressures on the United States because of the shameful findings."
by Robert Hager
"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."
by Robert Benchley
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
by Robert A. Heinlein
"There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things."
by Robert Lynd
"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."
by Robert Byrne
"There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't."
by Robert Benchley
"There are mighty few people who think what they think they think."
by Robert Henri
"There's a lot of confusion."
by Robert Townsend
"There was hatred in the back of that ambulance."
by Robert Perry
"There was a lot of confusion,"
by Robert Massey
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
by Robert Frost
"They care about their citrus trees. A lot of them also care about the fact that the government took their property and didn't compensate them for it."
by Robert Gilbert
"This is new technology serving an old idea. You build up all this cultural equity in a hit TV show and you want to spread that equity value to as many places as you can."
by Robert Thompson
"They were forced to withdraw, and as they were withdrawing the men operating the lines sustained burns while making sure the other guys got out safely."
by Robert Sweeney
"This was a very competitive group of entries. The judging was tremendously difficult. Each of the entries explored the power of Revenue Optimization techniques to generate significant cash flow and improved earnings under diverse circumstances. However, the winning entry demonstrated a very real and immediate potential to revolutionize the $200 billion fashion industry."
by Robert Cross
"This points to a slowdown in industrial production growth to 2 percent year-on-year."
by Robert Prior
"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"To have these partners jump into the deal substantiates that there is a market opportunity for satellite operators, and I would look forward to more partnering with satellite firms."
by Robert Peck
"Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked."
by Robert D. Sprecht
"Tucson is a big basketball city, ... The Wildcats are No. 1, but I think we're second."
by Robert Sarver
"We are thrilled with the success of this year's show."
by Robert Anderson
"Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell."
by Robert Byrne
"We discussed music and singing every time our paths crossed out here."
by Robert Hayden
"We did fairly well considering we've only had most of the girls for about a week and the Texas schools were in their third or fourth meet."
by Robert Garrison
"We believe that these markets will have strong growth potential."
by Robert Payne
"We'll make sure there's enough in that account to purchase health insurance coverage."
by Robert Kerr
"Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;/ When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. / Mother's wag, pretty boy, / Father's sorrow, father's joy."
by Robert Greene
"What you'll learn tonight is it doesn't stop with technical solutions, but that relationships really matter. If we can do anything, it would be to encourage you to develop strong, healthy, deep relationships with your children."
by Robert Wright
"What we live by we die by."
by Robert Frost
"What I love about Paul's work is the combination of the endless invention with a strong dramatic imagination."
by Robert Gottlieb
"What I am doing is more important than a movie or audio of me doing it. Technology should never be used for technology's sake, but the application of technology to enhance learning, I am all for."
by Robert Pompi
"When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"When faced with a tough choice, pause for a moment and think what your Mother would say about your decision."
by Robert H. Connelly
"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."
by Robert Frost
"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
by Robert Frost
"You just can't put a dollar figure on something that is your life companion."
by Robert Scott
"You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door."
by Robert Collier
"You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper."
by Robert Harris
"Without adequate money going into education, you can't reform it,"
by Robert Duncan
"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."
by Robert Burton
"Your wedding may be in May; you booked the facility in December; but what if a month before the ceremony, the facility was destroyed in a fire, flood, or tornado? What would you do? Most people also opt for coverage of the additional expenses associated with arranging alternative services."
by Robert Nuccio
"Do you think he was smart enough to know ... that he couldn't get the death penalty in Maryland for shooting Conrad Johnson?"
by Robert Horan
"Concerns about the weak February payrolls tally and the terrorism scare in Madrid were cited as reasons for the declines last week, but the market had been setting itself up for a pullback anyway. With that correction past, you're seeing people buying on the dips."
by Robert Long
"Everything we enjoy in society is a direct result of the accumulated learning derived from millions of mistakes. No mistakes, no progress. Yet we still look at making a mistake as embarrassing, wrong, an act bordering on sin. If youre making mistakes, it means youre doing new things, taking risks, stretching yourself. Youre growing, learning. And isn't the journey, the experience, not the destination, what life is all about?"
by Robert White
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Feeling a sense of like, 'I'm not the only one,' expressing stress is helpful."
by Robert McGrath
"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
by Robert Frost
"I had written several books about Kansas railroads and related places to see."
by Robert Collins
"I don't want to work hard on a book that is not going to be published in my lifetime. I want the money now! And, of course, I want to see the book published."
by Robert Parker
"I don't think racial motivation has anything to do with it."
by Robert Cardwell
"I think it's very good news, ... The number one question women have asked about (birth control pills) since 1960 is do they cause cancer. This study shows there is no long-term risk."
by Robert Hatcher
"I talk marriage; they talk weddings!"
by Robert Capon
"I have no understanding of motivations or politics."
by Robert Duncan
"I think all the stars are aligned for the economy to pick up, ... It's been growing; it just hasn't been growing fast enough to create new jobs. But I think the tax package, on top of easy money, will probably kick it over."
by Robert McTeer
"If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY."
by Cavett Robert
"It was the main definition of what capitalism is. I guess you would call me a free-market economist, that we shouldn't have the kind of government subsidies that Chase was proposing."
by Robert Sitarzewski
"It sounds so cruel but some of these telethons - even though you're doing it completely for charity - are very important gigs for your career,"
by Robert Thompson
"Just like mammography, we essentially have a preventive health care test that Medicare is mandated to cover."
by Robert Lindsay
"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."
by Robert Orben
"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."
by Robert Graves
"Ole Miss is too good of an opportunity to pass up."
by Robert Ramirez
"Older women are like aging strudels-the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own."
by Robert Capon
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done."
by R.P.T. (Robert Peter Tristram) Coffin
"O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire."
by Robert Browning
"Number one, treat every gun as if it is loaded. (And number two) always be sure of your target and what's beyond."
by Robert Newman
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."
by Robert A. Heinlein
"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape."
by Robert Frost
"Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first."
by Robert J. McKain


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