Famous Robert Frost Quotations

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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
by Robert Frost
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
by Robert Frost
"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
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
by Robert Frost
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
by Robert Frost
"The only certain freedom's in departure."
by Robert Frost
"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
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
by Robert Frost
"What we live by we die by."
by Robert Frost
"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
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
by Robert Frost
"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape."
by Robert Frost
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
by Robert Frost
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
by Robert Frost
"No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard."
by Robert Frost
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."
by Robert Frost
"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."
by Robert Frost
"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
by Robert Frost
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
by Robert Frost
"Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire."
by Robert Frost
"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so."
by Robert Frost
"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."
by Robert Frost
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
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."
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"
by Robert Frost
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
by Robert Frost
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer."
by Robert Frost
"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
by Robert Frost
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
by Robert Frost
"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
by Robert Frost
"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."
by Robert Frost
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom"
by Robert Frost
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness"
by Robert Frost
"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."
by Robert Frost
"Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season."
by Robert Frost
"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."
by Robert Frost
"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against with."
by Robert Frost
"An idea is a feat of association."
by Robert Frost
"Anything more than the truth would be too much."
by Robert Frost
"As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back."
by Robert Frost
"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
by Robert Frost
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."
by Robert Frost
"College is a refuge from hasty judgment."
by Robert Frost
"Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
by Robert Frost
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
by Robert Frost
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."
by Robert Frost
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
by Robert Frost
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence."
by Robert Frost
"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."
by Robert Frost
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."
by Robert Frost
"Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better."
by Robert Frost
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."
by Robert Frost
"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense."
by Robert Frost
"Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense."
by Robert Frost
"Freedom lies in being bold."
by Robert Frost
"Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated."
by Robert Frost
"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."
by Robert Frost
"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close."
by Robert Frost
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn"
by Robert Frost
"I always entertain great hopes."
by Robert Frost
"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."
by Robert Frost
"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."
by Robert Frost
"Humor is the most engaging cowardice"
by Robert Frost
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."
by Robert Frost
"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."
by Robert Frost
"I go to school the youth to learn the future."
by Robert Frost
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
by Robert Frost
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering"
by Robert Frost
"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."
by Robert Frost
"I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old."
by Robert Frost
"I met a Californian who would/ Talk California --a state so blessed/ He said, in climate, none had ever died there/ A natural death, and Vigilance Committees/ Had had to organize to stock the graveyards/ And vindicate the state's humanity."
by Robert Frost
"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."
by Robert Frost
"I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference."
by Robert Frost
"I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
by Robert Frost
"I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise."
by Robert Frost
"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down"
by Robert Frost
"I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed."
by Robert Frost
"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."
by Robert Frost
"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."
by Robert Frost
"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom"
by Robert Frost
"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia."
by Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life it goes on."
by Robert Frost
"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married"
by Robert Frost
"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."
by Robert Frost
"Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power."
by Robert Frost
"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being."
by Robert Frost
"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
by Robert Frost
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
by Robert Frost
"Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired."
by Robert Frost
"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."
by Robert Frost
"More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work."
by Robert Frost
"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."
by Robert Frost
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
by Robert Frost
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader"
by Robert Frost
"Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent."
by Robert Frost
"Nobody was ever meant , To remember or invent , What he did with every cent."
by Robert Frost
"Nothing can make injustice just but mercy."
by Robert Frost
"Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come back."
by Robert Frost


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