Top 484 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Frost - Page 2
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
To be social is to be forgiving.
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
The only certain freedom's in departure.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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.
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.
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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.
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
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.
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
All the fun is in how you say a thing.
Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
All great things are done for their own sake.
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
You're searching...
For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
There are only middles.
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
The test is always how we treat the poor.
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for
Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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