1875-1963, American Poet
''Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?''
Robert Frost – [Skepticism]
A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
Robert Frost – [Work]
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost – [Diplomacy]
A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost – [Liberals]
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]
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]
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost – [Poetry and Poets]
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost – [Law and Lawyers]
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]
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]
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]
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Robert Frost – [Ideas]
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
Robert Frost – [Failure]
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 – [Epitaphs]
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost – [Promises]
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]
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost – [Reason]
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Frost – [Education]
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost – [Education]
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
Robert Frost – [Nonsense]