Robert Frost
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.Collection: Wedding
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.Collection: Fathers
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.Collection: Moving
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: History
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.Collection: Forgiveness
The best way out is always through.Collection: Inspirational
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.Collection: Inspirational
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.Collection: Society
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.Collection: Work
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.Collection: Work
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.Collection: Work
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Communication
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.Collection: Art
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Power
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.Collection: Age
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.Collection: Legal
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.Collection: Women
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Collection: Happiness
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.Collection: Work
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.Collection: Change
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.Collection: Society
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.Collection: Home
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
The only certain freedom's in departure.Collection: Freedom
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.Collection: Humor
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.Collection: Life
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.Collection: Nature
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.Collection: Fear
I always entertain great hopes.Collection: Hope
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.Collection: Work
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.Collection: Education
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.Collection: Wisdom
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.Collection: Education
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.Collection: Poetry
The artist in me cries out for design.Collection: Design
Freedom lies in being bold.Collection: Freedom
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.Collection: Freedom
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.Collection: Poetry
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.Collection: Poetry
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.Collection: Family
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.Collection: Money
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.Collection: Education
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.Collection: Space
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.Collection: Poetry
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.Collection: Forgiveness
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.Collection: Love
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.Collection: Teacher