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All Quotes by author - Robert Frost

" A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. "

" A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. "

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

" A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. "

" A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. "

" 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. "

" A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. "

" 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. "

" A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. "

" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "

" A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. "

" A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. "

" A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. "

" Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. "

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

" College is a refuge from hasty judgment. "

" Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. "

" Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. "

" Education is hanging around until you've caught on. "

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

Self-Confidence

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

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

" Freedom lies in being bold. "

" 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. "

" Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. "

" Hell is a half-filled auditorium. "

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

" Humor is the most engaging cowardice. "

" I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. "

" I always entertain great hopes. "

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