Quotes from Robert Frost

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

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

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

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

Love is the desire to be irresistibly desired.

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

Courage is the human virtue that counts most--courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have

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

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

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schoolingTo get adapted to my kind of fooling.

A poem… begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.