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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Robert Frost

Work
2

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Robert Frost

Diplomacy
3

A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Robert Frost

Liberals
4

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

Robert Frost

Fools and Foolishness
5

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Robert Frost

Poetry and Poets
6

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

Poetry and Poets
7

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Robert Frost

Law and Lawyers
8

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.

Robert Frost

Acceptance
9

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.

Robert Frost

Acceptance
10

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Robert Frost

Nationalities and Nationalism
11

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Robert Frost

Ideas
12

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

Robert Frost

Failure
13

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.

Robert Frost

Epitaph
14

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

Promise
15

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

Bosses and Employees
16

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

Robert Frost

Reason
17

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Robert Frost

Education
18

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

Robert Frost

Education
19

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.

Robert Frost

Nonsense
20

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

Robert Frost

God
21

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Robert Frost

Friends and Friendship
22

Good fences make good neighbors.

Robert Frost

Neighbors
23

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.

Robert Frost

Communication
24

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

Happiness
25

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

Robert Frost

Heaven
26

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Robert Frost

Hell
27

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.

Robert Frost

Home
28

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Robert Frost

Teachers and Teaching
29

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost

Argument
30

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Robert Frost

Hell
31

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

Robert Frost

Radicals
32

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.

Robert Frost

Power
33

I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

Poetry and Poets
34

I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.

Robert Frost

Confusion
35

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

Robert Frost

United States of America
36

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

Robert Frost

Life and Living
37

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

Robert Frost

Fights and Fighting
38

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Love
39

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

Robert Frost

Vanity
40

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

Change
41

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.

Robert Frost

Autumn
42

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Robert Frost

Stardom
43

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

Robert Frost

Books and Reading
44

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

Robert Frost

Loneliness
45

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Robert Frost

Optimism
46

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Robert Frost

Poetry and Poets
47

Poetry is what is lost in translation.

Robert Frost

Poetry and Poets
48

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Robert Frost

Conscription
49

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

Robert Frost

Skepticism
50

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

Robert Frost

Communication
51

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

Robert Frost

Losers and Losing
52

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

Robert Frost

Individuality
53

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Robert Frost

Difficulties
54

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Robert Frost

Work
55

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

Robert Frost

School
56

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

Robert Frost

Choice
57

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.

Robert Frost

Family
58

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

Robert Frost

Law and Lawyers
59

The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.

Robert Frost

Land
60

The land was ours before we were the lands. She was our land more than a hundred yearsBefore we were her people. She was oursIn Massachusetts, in Virginia,But we were Englands, still colonials,Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed. Something we were withholding made us weakUntil we found out that it was ourselvesWe were withholding from our land of living,And forthwith found salvation in surrender. Such as we were we gave ourselves outrightTo the land vaguely realizing westward,But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,Such as she was, such as she would become.

Robert Frost

Uncategorised
61

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Robert Frost

Lies and Lying
62

The only way around is through.

Robert Frost

Achievement
63

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Robert Frost

Worry
64

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

Life and Death
65

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Frost

Will and Will Power
66

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

Robert Frost

Income
67

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

Robert Frost

Grave
68

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Robert Frost

Fear
69

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Robert Frost

Heart
70

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.

Robert Frost

Universe
71

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Robert Frost

Thoughts and Thinking
72

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Robert Frost

Time and Time Management
73

To be social is to be forgiving.

Robert Frost

Society
74

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Risk
75

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.

Robert Frost

Marriage
76

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Robert Frost

Secrets
77

What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?

Robert Frost

Birth
78

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

Truth
79

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

Robert Frost

Poetry and Poets
80

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

Robert Frost

Grammar
81

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Robert Frost

Parents and Parenting

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.

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

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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.

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.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

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.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

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

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

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

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.

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

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Good fences make good neighbors.

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.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

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

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.

I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.

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

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

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

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

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Poetry is what is lost in translation.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

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 best way out of a difficulty is through it.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

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

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

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.

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

The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

The only way around is through.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

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.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.