Robert Frost

half world people say nothing keep saying

"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 (1874-1963)

roads diverged woods less traveled difference

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

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

three words life goes on

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

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

education listen temper self-confidence

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

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

promises keep miles go sleep

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

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

build wall in out

"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out."

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

forgive nonsense talk sense

"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense."

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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"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 Frost (1874-1963)

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"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 (1874-1963)

good fences neighbors

"Good fences make good neighbors."

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

thinking agreeing voting

"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

teacher awakene

"I'm not a teacher, but an awakener."

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

grow old best come

"Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!"

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

thunder Franklin apple Newton hint nature

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

disease executive alcohol egotism

"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism"

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

afternoon knows morning suspect

"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

touble pocket hole

"Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!"

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

teacher quail move prod jump skies

"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."

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

great things own sake

"All great things are done for their own sake."

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

sigth insight excite

"What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite."

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

done love

"What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all."

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

reason rush free slow

"There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow."

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)

fire and ice robert frost

"Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice."

— Robert Frost (1874-1963)