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Robert Frost

United States poet (1874-1963) famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England.

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life it goes on. – Robert FrostRate it:
I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise. – Robert FrostRate it:
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. – Robert FrostRate it:
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. – Robert FrostRate it:
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. – Robert FrostRate it:
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves. – Robert FrostRate it:
The best way out is always through. – Robert FrostRate it:
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 FrostRate it:
You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings-there are no such things. – Robert FrostRate it:
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. – Robert FrostRate it:
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert FrostRate it:
Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire. – Robert FrostRate it:
Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Robert FrostRate it:
An idea is a feat of association. – Robert FrostRate it:
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. – Robert FrostRate it:
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 FrostRate it:
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. – Robert FrostRate it:
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. – Robert FrostRate it:
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – Robert FrostRate it:
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. – Robert FrostRate it:
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. – Robert FrostRate it:
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer. – Robert FrostRate it:
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert FrostRate it:
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. – Robert FrostRate it:
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 FrostRate it:
Anything more than the truth would be too much. – Robert FrostRate it:
As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back. – Robert FrostRate it:
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert FrostRate it:
Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. – Robert FrostRate it:
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. – Robert FrostRate it:
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense. – Robert FrostRate it:
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. – Robert FrostRate it:
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 FrostRate it:
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. – Robert FrostRate it:
Hell is a half-filled auditorium. – Robert FrostRate it:
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 FrostRate it:
I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed. – Robert FrostRate it:
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. – Robert FrostRate it:
More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work. – Robert FrostRate it:
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. – Robert FrostRate it:
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. – Robert FrostRate it:
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert FrostRate it:
Poetry is what is lost in translation. – Robert FrostRate it:
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here? – Robert FrostRate 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 into the office. – Robert FrostRate 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 into the office. – Robert FrostRate it:
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. – Robert FrostRate it:
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 FrostRate it:
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. – Robert FrostRate it:
The only way round is through. – Robert FrostRate it:
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. – Robert FrostRate it:
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep. – Robert FrostRate it:
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. – Robert FrostRate it:
There are tones of voices that mean more than words. – Robert FrostRate it:
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people. – Robert FrostRate it:
Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert FrostRate it:
We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. – Robert FrostRate it:
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. – Robert FrostRate it:
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. – Robert FrostRate it:
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. – Robert FrostRate it:

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

– Robert FrostRate it:

I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.

– Robert FrostRate it:

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

– Robert FrostRate it:

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

– Robert FrostRate it:

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.

– Robert FrostRate it:

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.

– Robert FrostRate it: